ABSTRACT
Maimonides also wrestled with the doctrine that god is unified, unchanging, all-powerful, and all-knowing, which challenged his belief that god is involved with a changing world and that the divine will acts within history. Indeed, although Maimonides held that god is omniscient and knows all past and the future events, he responds to concerns about the problem of evil and divine goodness by arguing that the term “knowledge” is ambiguous when referring to the god and human beings. In The Guide, he argues that the god speaks only through those with proper intellectual perfection and that he may still withhold revelation even from those who satisfy the requisites for being a prophet. This naturalistic view of prophecy enabled Maimonides to justify the pursuit of the philosophical knowledge, since one could only receive the divine word after achieving the intellectual perfection.
