LessonsRefuting Anthropomorphism: Divine Attributes, Scriptural Language and LikenessQuiz

A composite depends on its components. If the imagined parts are each independently necessary and fully perfect, a plurality of Necessary Existents seems to follow. If they lack those perfections, the resulting whole is not free from dependence on less-than-necessary components.

فيلزم تعدد الواجب، أو لا فيلزم النقص والحدوث
Plural necessary beings would follow, or else deficiency and origination.

This is a conditional division testing the consequences of a hypothesis. It does not claim that divine parts actually exist; rather, it argues that either way of construing them conflicts with divine independence.

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What if the Necessary Existent were composite?

Refuting Anthropomorphism: Divine Attributes, Scriptural Language and Likeness

A composite depends on its components. If the imagined parts are each independently necessary and fully perfect, a plurality of Necessary Existents seems to follow. If they lack those perfections, the resulting whole is not free from dependence on less-than-necessary components.

فيلزم تعدد الواجب، أو لا فيلزم النقص والحدوث
Plural necessary beings would follow, or else deficiency and origination.

This is a conditional division testing the consequences of a hypothesis. It does not claim that divine parts actually exist; rather, it argues that either way of construing them conflicts with divine independence.