LessonsVision of God: Possibility, Evidence, Objections and TranscendenceQuiz

Seeing something and comprehensively surrounding it in every limit, side and dimension are not identical acts. A person can see a large object without grasping all of its details or the whole of its reality. This example clarifies the nonidentity of vision and encompassing; it does not assign bodily sides to God.

In the Sunni account, vision is possible without encompassing the divine essence, restricting it by limits, or assigning it a corporeal modality. The doctrine of transcendence remains intact rather than being replaced by a physical account of sight.

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Seeing without encompassing

Vision of God: Possibility, Evidence, Objections and Transcendence

Seeing something and comprehensively surrounding it in every limit, side and dimension are not identical acts. A person can see a large object without grasping all of its details or the whole of its reality. This example clarifies the nonidentity of vision and encompassing; it does not assign bodily sides to God.

In the Sunni account, vision is possible without encompassing the divine essence, restricting it by limits, or assigning it a corporeal modality. The doctrine of transcendence remains intact rather than being replaced by a physical account of sight.