(November 14, 2018 at 4:00 am)Belaqua Wrote:(November 13, 2018 at 8:01 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Causing things to happen, whether through its nature or not, is an act.
Well, in both the Platonic and Aristotelian traditions, God is the Good, the Ideal, and the end point of all potentialities. God does nothing but exist as such, and the world moves because it aims to be nearer to, or more like, God. Action requires change, and change is something God doesn't do. The world changes because it is "motivated" by God.
Then that's not the God I have argued against then, since that's not really a Creator God. And I do know Aristotle didn't believe God created time since, for him, time could not have had a beginning.
Quote:Quote:I'm talking about the "everything out of nothing" Creator God, the God of WLC and the likes. To create (in this context here) is to form out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo).
What is WLC? Is it widespread?
Sorry, should've been clearer. WLC is just our shorthand here for William Lane Craig.