Will We Know Everything in Heaven?

Randy Alcorn, founder of EPM
By Randy Alcorn
February 1, 2010

HeavenIn Heaven, we’ll see clearly (1 Cor. 13:12), but won’t know everything. 

If we knew everything, we’d be God. To see clearly, with far greater understanding, is one thing, to see omnisciently is another. God alone is Creator, we are mere creatures. Only God is omniscient; we are and always will be finite. The popular notion “we’ll know everything in heaven” is therefore clearly wrong. When we go to heaven we become glorified humans, we don’t become God. The angels in heaven don’t know everything (Mark 13:32). Neither will we.


For more information on the subject of Heaven, see Randy Alcorn’s book Heaven.

Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of over sixty books and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. 

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I think questions about the natural world help us know God better, since Romans 1 says he reveals himself to us in creation. We will not be infinite, so we'll never know everything, but we will understand a great deal more than we do now. So I'd say we won't automatically know answers to a question like gravity, but we will be capable of learning the answers. We do know we will be learning about God and His wonders throughout eternity (Eph. 2:7).