The question that I asked in the Bible Study yesterday was, "Can God choose to not know something?"  Of course, there was much discussion about a Creator who can do anything He chooses.  But the discussion around  God choosing to "not do something" was divided.

There is not a definitive answer that I have found supported by scripture.  But since my "go to" system is always logic analysis, I start with things like, "When you add two to three, do you get five?"     And follow that up in a "Bible arena", and ask a question that can be supported by scripture, "Is God always good?"  And naturally I give a number of scriptures to tell what the Bible has to say.  Such as 1 John 1:5 where the disciple John (the beloved of Jesus) says: "This then is the message which we have heard of him (Jesus) and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all."

And then follow up--when they answer that God is always good with, "Is He all-powerful?  Can He do anything and everything?"  Which generally leads to answers such as, "Well, since we have free will, He can't force us to believe in Jesus.  We have to make a choice.  It's up to us."  Which I agree with.  And answers like, "Since he is always good, he can't contradict His character."  So, yes, there are some types of things that God has foreordained for Himself that He can't, by His nature, do.

As for "all powerful," I get answers like, "He can't contradict his promises."  Or quotes from the Lord's prayer, "Thine is the kingdom, and the glory, and the power..."  After ten or fifteen minutes of discussion about the character of God, I ask the question I mentioned, "Can God choose not to know something--or does He know everything?"  And by the time I ask that question, they are able to realize that some questions concerning God are exceedingly difficult.

In my own mind, I have already decided that God can create man, give him free will to choose good or evil, give him the acumen to recognize that He, God, exists and then--as God--choose not to know what the individual man will do concerning his decision to choose Christ as the sacrificial lamb of God--the path to fellowship with Him.  Otherwise, God would knowingly create children, (since God is the author of all life), who are born doomed, foreordained, to eternal death.   If God is always good, that seems logically impossible.