{"id":5334,"date":"2018-08-29T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2018-08-19T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T18:34:26","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-the-all-knowing-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5334","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Porphyrios on the All-knowing God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod\u2019s knowledge is beyond comprehension for our own mind. It is infinite and encompasses all beings, visible and invisible, from the beginning of time until the end of time. God knows all things with minute precision in all their depth and breadth. The Lord knows us before we know ourselves. He knows our predispositions and our slightest thought, the temptations we play with and our decisions \u2014 before we even take them. But even before our conception and before the creation of the world he knew us well. This is why David cries out in wonderment: \u2018Lord, You tried me and knew me&#8230; You understood my thoughts from afar off&#8230; You traced out my path and You foreknew all my ways&#8230;Ps. 138:1-5 You knew all things, the last things and the first things; You formed me [139:1-5] and set your hand upon me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 \u2018Wounded by Love\u2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5335\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5335\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5335\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/9207-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/9207-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/9207-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/9207.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">vvlasidis@uowm.gr<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod\u2019s knowledge is beyond comprehension for our own mind. It is infinite and encompasses all beings, visible and invisible, from the beginning of time until the end of time. God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5336,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions\/5336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}