LessonsDivine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and NamingQuiz

حقيقة الوجود من حيث النسبة إلى الزمان الثاني
Existence considered in relation to the second time.

If persistence means continued existence at a later time, no separate entity over and above existence is necessarily required. Saying it existed yesterday and exists today differs from affirming existence and nonexistence at the same time.

A created thing may be absent, come into being, and subsequently remain. Those stages neither make it eternal nor require that every temporal description designate a separate self-subsisting substance. This distinction is central to the reply to a proposed contradiction between origination and persistence.

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Persistence and existence at a later time

Divine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and Naming

حقيقة الوجود من حيث النسبة إلى الزمان الثاني
Existence considered in relation to the second time.

If persistence means continued existence at a later time, no separate entity over and above existence is necessarily required. Saying it existed yesterday and exists today differs from affirming existence and nonexistence at the same time.

A created thing may be absent, come into being, and subsequently remain. Those stages neither make it eternal nor require that every temporal description designate a separate self-subsisting substance. This distinction is central to the reply to a proposed contradiction between origination and persistence.