Susanna Wesley thought Aristotle mistaken for positing eternal matter, but she thought that Aristotle was driven to this conclusion by the true supposition that “a true notion of the goodness of God” must lead to an idea that God “must eternally be communicating good to something or other.” God must be somehow social; matter must have been around to socialize with.
Wesley concluded that Aristotle would not have driven to this error if he had possessed “knowledge of revealed knowledge”: “had he ever heard of that great article of our Christian faith concerning the Holy Trinity, he had then perceived the almighty Goodness eternally communicating being and all the fullness of the Godhead to the divine Logos, his uncreated Word, between whose existence and that of the Father there is not one moment assignable.”
Anyone with a mother who can do that is destined for greatness.
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