RECONCILING GOD’S OMNISCIENCE WITH TIME AND SPACE: A CASE FOR ISLAMIC ATOMISM
Abstract
My aim in the course of this paper will be an attempt to
reconcile the view that God is unrestrained by time and
space [the classical view of divine eternity] along with
God’s knowledge [omniscience]. To do this, I hope to make
apparent a particular issue concerning a timeless God and
His knowledge of particulars and universals. This points to
a possible solution in the understanding of substance and
accidents as it is considered by Islamic atomism, which is
a kind of occasionalism. This theory puts forward the idea
that at every instant, the cosmos is created by God anew.
The paper will demonstrate how this approach manages to
unite God’s non-temporal being and omniscience.
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