LessonsDivine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and NamingQuiz

قائمة بذات الله تعالى
Subsisting with the divine essence.

One objection says that attributing qualities to God must make God dependent on them. This confuses a creature's need for an external completion with the affirmation of an intrinsic eternal perfection. In the classical theological account, God's attributes are not external additions arriving to remedy a former deficiency.

Human knowledge is acquired and human strength may increase or diminish; there is a before and an after. That example should not be projected onto eternal divine attributes, which do not arise through learning, bodily change or outside assistance.

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Independence of the essence does not erase attributes

Divine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and Naming

قائمة بذات الله تعالى
Subsisting with the divine essence.

One objection says that attributing qualities to God must make God dependent on them. This confuses a creature's need for an external completion with the affirmation of an intrinsic eternal perfection. In the classical theological account, God's attributes are not external additions arriving to remedy a former deficiency.

Human knowledge is acquired and human strength may increase or diminish; there is a before and an after. That example should not be projected onto eternal divine attributes, which do not arise through learning, bodily change or outside assistance.