LessonsDivine Transcendence: Form, Essence, Place and TimeQuiz

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He is neither part-bearing nor divisible into components.

Division into parts means that a whole consists of distinguishable components. A physical whole depends, in its present configuration, on the arrangement and relation of those components.

A table illustrates this dependence: remove a leg or the tabletop and that arrangement no longer remains. To describe God as part-bearing would introduce a kind of composition and dependence incompatible with the meaning of necessary, self-subsistent existence.

The claim is not merely that no observer has seen divine parts. It is the principled rejection of component dependence in the necessary being.

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The denial of being made of parts

Divine Transcendence: Form, Essence, Place and Time

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He is neither part-bearing nor divisible into components.

Division into parts means that a whole consists of distinguishable components. A physical whole depends, in its present configuration, on the arrangement and relation of those components.

A table illustrates this dependence: remove a leg or the tabletop and that arrangement no longer remains. To describe God as part-bearing would introduce a kind of composition and dependence incompatible with the meaning of necessary, self-subsistent existence.

The claim is not merely that no observer has seen divine parts. It is the principled rejection of component dependence in the necessary being.