It should therefore be affirmed in the revealed Law that He knows a thing before it comes into being as something that will come into being; that He knows it when it comes into being as something that has come into being; and that He knows what has perished as having perished at the time of its perishing.

This is what the principles of the revealed Law require.

This is so because ordinary people understand someone’s knowing in the observable world only in this sense. The speculative theologians have no demonstrative proof requiring that He be characterized otherwise. They merely say:

Knowledge that changes as the existing things known change is temporally originated, and nothing temporally originated can subsist in the Creator, exalted is He, because, they claim, whatever is free of temporal events is itself temporally originated.

He said:

What should be said to the select few is that eternal knowledge does not resemble the knowledge of