Sunni affirmation: Knowledge, power, life, and other attributes are real and eternal, subsisting in God, neither created accidents nor separate gods.
Reported Muʿtazilī and philosophical objection: Real distinct eternal attributes seem to imply a plurality of eternal beings, prompting explanations in terms of identity with the essence or conceptual relations.
Reported Karrāmī view: Attributes are affirmed but some are held to originate; the answer distinguishes new objects of relation from new intrinsic states in God.
Speech: An objection arises when the predicate 'speaking' is explained solely by speech located in another subject. These disputes concern different propositions despite sharing the subject of divine attributes.