Here Aristotle is attempting to explain how the world is created by god. He doesn't want his god to act in time because he doesn't want god to actively change things in the world because that active change would lead to potentiality. The God of Aristotle is not an activist, the God of the Bible is much more an activist who deals with human life directly. He believes that the ultimate purpose of the universe is to try to be like God. I find Aristotle's arguments lacking the evidence needed to actually convince me to see the world through his lens. Aristotle criticizes Plato for having no concrete evidence to support his theories, but he has no concrete evidence that the material world is the source of knowledge. Isn't it possible that things don't exist for a reason, some things happen by chance? If the Prime Mover cannot interact with the world, then it is very different from the Judeo-Christian understanding of God that I was taught to understand when I grew up. Therefore I am quite biased in the sense that my morals lean more towards the Christian view than towards that of Aristotle, his ideas are second nature at this time and therefore are not so attractive to my mind. I wish Aristotle believed that God has the ability to know what evil is
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