LessonsRefuting Anthropomorphism: Divine Attributes, Scriptural Language and LikenessQuiz

Bodies admit various conceivable shapes and magnitudes. Attributing mutually exclusive shapes in the same respect would combine opposites; selecting only one raises the further question of what specifies that choice.

فيلزم اجتماع الأضداد
The combination of opposites would follow.

For example, something cannot be wholly spherical and nonspherical at the same time and in the same respect. If instead one bodily configuration is fixed among alternatives, the classical argument asks for its determining basis. The concern is contingent determination, not merely a particular physical shape.

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Alternative shapes and magnitudes

Refuting Anthropomorphism: Divine Attributes, Scriptural Language and Likeness

Bodies admit various conceivable shapes and magnitudes. Attributing mutually exclusive shapes in the same respect would combine opposites; selecting only one raises the further question of what specifies that choice.

فيلزم اجتماع الأضداد
The combination of opposites would follow.

For example, something cannot be wholly spherical and nonspherical at the same time and in the same respect. If instead one bodily configuration is fixed among alternatives, the classical argument asks for its determining basis. The concern is contingent determination, not merely a particular physical shape.