Does omniscience necessarily entail omnipotence?

Question

Suppose an existing being has its existence in danger, but miraculously becomes omniscient, could this being save its existence? Or is there any case where this is impossible?

My main motivation for this question is the thought that one might have the motivation to gain knowledge on the assumption that this will give one more power.

EDIT: I acknowledge that there can exist an ambiguity, and thus different answers, depending on whether we are talking about the properties themselves (if one property entails another) or the properties applied to a being (if one property in a being entails another property in the same being).

Answer 1

It may be impossible to save oneself. An omniscient being would know that. So omniscient and yet not omnipotent.

Answer 2

Omnipotence is about power while omniscience is about knowledge. I may be all knowing but powerless to do anything with this knowledge. So to save myself I would need some power depending on the circumstance and omnipotence guarantees my ability to save myself.

Answer 3

In discussing theology questions with other theists, I almost always find that they undervalue omniscience. Omniscience is AMAZINGLY powerful. A few examples of what omniscience implies:

a) One can persuade anyone of anything. IF one knows to the Nth degree the psychology of another individual, and has total mastery of communication skills, then one will be able to find psychological leverage points, and means to use them to convince -- IE that individual WILL be persuadable by an omniscient entity.

b) Likewise, leverage of the physical plane can be optimized. TINY inputs can be used to create macro-scale outcomes. A few specks of dust could be redirected, and be used to nudge a comet ever so slightly near its apex. 100,000 years later, it can intersect a planetary orbit as the planet passes. A bit of water could be slightly concentrated on a slope, and suddenly the drop in static friction leas half a mountainside to let go.

c) Even more drastically, theoretical physicists have discovered that one can do ANYTHING by adding or subtracting terms from quantum equations! As with the minor tweaks above, these can be very low or eve NO energy inputs! All one needs is the power to "put fire in the equations". Add a term locally, in just the right spot, for a nanosecond, and any threat could decorrelate, or collapse into a black hole, or find itself at the other end of a wormhole, or one of innumerable other "tricks" that I have not heard of, or modern physicists have not yet discovered.

So, an omniscient entity, with even limited power, so long as its power allows it to manipulate physics locally on demand, should be able to maintain itself forever against any threat.

Answer 4

If an omniscient is an entity made up of something mortal one might say that an omnipotent excels an omniscient. But if one could go one step higher he would never say so. An omniscient can never be mortal.

You can ask yourself this question: “In the absence of the omniscient who/what would be there to be the consciousness/knowledge/wisdom of the omnipotent?” That means omniscience entails omnipotence.

"... miraculously becomes omniscient, could this being save its existence?"

If it is omniscient it must know how to save its existence.

"is there a case where this is impossible?"

Yes. If that omniscient is considered as a separate entity made up of something mortal. Then only it cannot save itself.