
Ibn Taymiyyah's Theology - Part 2 with Dr Hatem al-Haj
Blogging Theology
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The Supervening of Events in the Divine Absurdity
Aristotle believed in an eternal universe without beginning. But every time they cannot escape from the contradiction, because that universe is full of new things happening. So, this concept of a static God of completely actualized potential is metaphysically impossible for that God to be effectively related to the changing world and conflicts with the Qur'anic description of God. Even Plato, you know, and certainly Plato is before Aristotle, but pre-Arstitarian Ubritemia talks a lot about a sartinian fancifer cobbly Aristotle.
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