LessonsThe World and Its Origination: Creation and Philosophical EternityQuiz

فتخرج صفات الله تعالى
Thus the attributes of God Most High are excluded.

Divine attributes are not treated as members of the class of created things. Other than God is not a merely verbal exclusion of the divine name: it preserves the ontological difference between divine attributes and originated creatures.

For example, divine knowledge is not a newly arising state like human learning. Human understanding increases and decreases; God's knowledge is not subject to such change. The theological treatment of the two kinds of attributes must therefore remain distinct.

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Why the divine attributes are not included

The World and Its Origination: Creation and Philosophical Eternity

فتخرج صفات الله تعالى
Thus the attributes of God Most High are excluded.

Divine attributes are not treated as members of the class of created things. Other than God is not a merely verbal exclusion of the divine name: it preserves the ontological difference between divine attributes and originated creatures.

For example, divine knowledge is not a newly arising state like human learning. Human understanding increases and decreases; God's knowledge is not subject to such change. The theological treatment of the two kinds of attributes must therefore remain distinct.