Omniscience Still Hinges On Reason

To be omniscient is to have knowledge of all aspects of reality: full awareness of not just every purely logical truth, but absolute certainty about the existence and nature of every mind, particle, and event, as well as absolutely certain knowledge about everything else that exists and even about every alternate possibility that could have been true but is not.  There could not even be any ambiguity about an omniscient being knowing it possesses full knowledge of all truths and possibilities.  There would be no gradual recognition, only immediate, infallible awareness of its omniscience.  No knowledge could be lost or gained as long as its omniscience remains.

Having omniscience would not mean a being has no epistemological reliance on reason.  It would have a different kind of dependence, but it is impossible to be aware of anything at all without knowledge of reason on some level.  An omniscient mind would not have no need for reason in an epistemological sense, just one that does not entail needing to individually reason out new logical truths on any occasion.  The self-affirming nature of logical axioms, such as how some things necessarily follow from others, would still be constantly grasped, as would every fact that follows from any premise, including that which would follow from concepts that are not actually true.

The Christian conception of God himself is just as reliant on reason as every human is.  This does not make God, the Christian deity or otherwise, nothing but a glorified human!  What it instead means is that omniscience cannot make any type of being at all exempt from being epistemologically bound to reason.  Reason governs all things, for something that contradicts reason is impossible and therefore cannot be true.  Every truth and other thing that exists and every bit of genuine knowledge (as opposed to assumptions) relies on reason both metaphysically and epistemologically.

Knowledge of some things involves more than just reason.  For example, one must have senses in addition to an intellect in order to have sensory perceptions.  Even though reason is more metaphysically fundamental that the senses and matter, and even though it is possible for a mind completely devoid of sensory input to use reason to think of the concept of sensory experiences, sensory information and even introspection involve more than merely grasping reason.  Reason is the one thing that is always present in all knowledge, but some things other than reason at least provide initial perceptions that can be analyzed rationalistically.  An omniscient being knows this!

Omniscience is not freedom from rationalistic epistemology.  It is freedom from epistemological limitations like an inability to verify sensory perceptions which, no matter what truths they obscure, cannot extinguish the absolute certainties of logical axioms and deductions.  There is no such thing as metaphysical or epistemological freedom from reason no matter what kind of being one is.  In all things, the truths of reason are unavoidable; reason governs even the metaphysical and epistemological nature of the greatest being that be proven to exist: the uncaused cause.  Whether the uncaused cause is omniscient or not is philosophically unprovable, even if there is genuine evidence that Christianity might be true, but omniscience is nothing more than the absence of epistemological limitations of all kinds.  Reason cannot be escaped.