LessonsDivine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and NamingQuiz

الحياة، والعلم، والقدرة
Life, knowledge and power.

Life is affirmed as a divine perfection, without suggesting nutrition, organs or a finite biological lifespan. Knowledge concerns everything knowable; power concerns possible acts and their realization or non-realization.

For conceptual contrast, a human may know how something is done while being unable to do it. This illustrates a difference between the concepts, not a comparison between divine and human capacities. Power relates to possibilities; a logical contradiction does not constitute an actual possible object awaiting creation.

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Life, knowledge and power are distinct concepts

Divine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and Naming

الحياة، والعلم، والقدرة
Life, knowledge and power.

Life is affirmed as a divine perfection, without suggesting nutrition, organs or a finite biological lifespan. Knowledge concerns everything knowable; power concerns possible acts and their realization or non-realization.

For conceptual contrast, a human may know how something is done while being unable to do it. This illustrates a difference between the concepts, not a comparison between divine and human capacities. Power relates to possibilities; a logical contradiction does not constitute an actual possible object awaiting creation.