LessonsRefuting Anthropomorphism: Divine Attributes, Scriptural Language and LikenessQuiz

Human knowing is acquired through experience, teaching and reflection, and it can change or be forgotten. It begins after previous ignorance and concerns a limited range. Divine knowledge is affirmed as eternal, enduring and encompassing, without that acquired human mode.

إن العلم منا موجود وعرض وعلم محدث وجائز الوجود ويتجدد في كل زمان
Our knowledge exists as an accident: it is originated, contingent and renewed through time.

Sharing the name “knowledge” does not demonstrate sameness of reality. Transferring the temporality of human knowledge to divine knowledge is an example of the very mistaken inference under discussion.

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A detailed contrast: divine and human knowledge

Refuting Anthropomorphism: Divine Attributes, Scriptural Language and Likeness

Human knowing is acquired through experience, teaching and reflection, and it can change or be forgotten. It begins after previous ignorance and concerns a limited range. Divine knowledge is affirmed as eternal, enduring and encompassing, without that acquired human mode.

إن العلم منا موجود وعرض وعلم محدث وجائز الوجود ويتجدد في كل زمان
Our knowledge exists as an accident: it is originated, contingent and renewed through time.

Sharing the name “knowledge” does not demonstrate sameness of reality. Transferring the temporality of human knowledge to divine knowledge is an example of the very mistaken inference under discussion.