I am certainly one of those people who believes that God does not exist, and I still see no reason to believe that people who called God all-knowing and all-powerful were using language intended to be taken non-literally. They did historically, and many still do even today..
Yes .. I believe that G-d is "All Knowing" and "All Powerful".
..but presumably, not in the way that you do .. that is, that these attributes contradict each other
in some way.
Why make any distinction at all? If something is impossible, for whatever reason, it is still impossible.
No .. something that is physically impossible, such as walking on water, is not the same as
a sentence that makes no logical sense.
God is powerless to make a stone to heavy to lift..
It's the sentence that is at fault .. we cannot communicate effectively when talking gibberish.
It is logically possible that an omnipotent God could change his mind about something or do something that he didn't realize he was going to do, except that he wouldn't be omniscient if he could do that..
Says you .. you are categorically telling us all about something that you have no knowledge of..
i.e. something not subject to space-time
..changing his mind is logically impossible, given his perfect foreknowledge.
The anthropomorphizing of G-d, describing a scenario mentioning past-tense, future-tense etc.
is invalid. It's no more than guesswork, and a bad one at that.
"His perfect foreknowledge" does not equal a future pre-determined by Him.
If we have free-will, which you have already agreed to, then I see no reason why an independent
Creator of space-time cannot influence events also ..
eg. He can put 'ideas' in our mind
God exists within his own timeline, where he makes decisions, plans, executes, observes, etc.
Who knows?
You use 'timeline' as meaning something like our own space-time .. but I do not envisage
G-d as a being with form .. more like an infinite number of non-physical souls (essence),
which has no need for measured time, or measured space .. as they are part of the creation.
Every action is conceptually an event. There is no other way to interpret them, and that is clearly how they were intended to be understood by audiences. All you can really say is that God's timeline is external to ours, not that God is 'outside of time' in every sense..
Outside of our measured-time, yes.
The problem is that you can't explain the language used to describe God, because it leads to contradictions and confusion. So you just wave your hand and say that it doesn't matter..
It's not easy to describe something that is not of this universe, naturally .. but not impossible.
Words are not my forte .. I'm better with boolean logic and math.