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S7, E3, The Guide of the Perplexed, Creation, 03: Is Creation ex Nihilo Known via Philosophy or Prophecy?
This shiur was generously sponsored by Mr. Ari Schwartz. This series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation.
2:00 Passages in the Guide that indicate that Creation ex Nihilo is known through revelatory prophecy
8:15 How Abraham reached knowledge of God through contemplating the heavens
19:30 Was Abraham an Aristotelian philosopher?
25:00 Prophecy revealed the truth that Creation ex Nihilo is the proper belief, not that Creation ex Nihilo is a scientific, cosmological fact
44:45 Since we believe that Abraham and Moshe had divine revelation, their personal philosophical speculations don't concern us
48:30 Maimonides' story about how Abraham discovered God is a deliberate anachronism
52:30 The project of the Guide of the Perplexed and how the perplexity shifts dramatically when it comes to Creation
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This shiur was generously sponsored by Mr. Ari Schwartz. This series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation.
2:00 Passages in the Guide that indicate that Creation ex Nihilo is known through revelatory prophecy
8:15 How Abraham reached knowledge of God through contemplating the heavens
19:30 Was Abraham an Aristotelian philosopher?
25:00 Prophecy revealed the truth that Creation ex Nihilo is the proper belief, not that Creation ex Nihilo is a scientific, cosmological fact
44:45 Since we believe that Abraham and Moshe had divine revelation, their personal philosophical speculations don't concern us
48:30 Maimonides' story about how Abraham discovered God is a deliberate anachronism
52:30 The project of the Guide of the Perplexed and how the perplexity shifts dramatically when it comes to Creation
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