(October 16, 2017 at 11:13 am)Jehanne Wrote:(October 16, 2017 at 10:53 am)Ignorant Wrote: Do you consider the God of Aristotle a religious God?
Is deism a religion?
By theism, I meant merely a metaphysical/purely philosophical account of reality which includes some sort of self-explanatory/self-existent "being". An infinite past is not mutually exclusive with these sorts of accounts.
Aristotle believed that God and the Universe were co-existent with a beginningless past.
Precisely.
Earlier you said arguments against actual temporal infinities are not helpful to theism, but they aren't necessarily harmful either.