LessonsEternal Divine Attributes: Knowledge, Power, Life and SpeechQuiz

وَلَهُ حَيَاةٌ أَزَلِيَّةٌ
And He possesses eternal life.

Affirming life means more than permitting the title 'Living': it affirms a real, perfect, beginningless attribute. Created life is connected with bodies, nourishment, development, and vulnerability to death. None of those conditions defines divine life.

Knowledge, power, and life are intelligibly distinct perfections, yet their divine reality must not be imagined as copied human states. Divine life has no beginning, decay, or exposure to helplessness.

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Life alongside knowledge and power

Eternal Divine Attributes: Knowledge, Power, Life and Speech

وَلَهُ حَيَاةٌ أَزَلِيَّةٌ
And He possesses eternal life.

Affirming life means more than permitting the title 'Living': it affirms a real, perfect, beginningless attribute. Created life is connected with bodies, nourishment, development, and vulnerability to death. None of those conditions defines divine life.

Knowledge, power, and life are intelligibly distinct perfections, yet their divine reality must not be imagined as copied human states. Divine life has no beginning, decay, or exposure to helplessness.