LessonsVision of God: Possibility, Evidence, Objections and TranscendenceQuiz

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It is rationally possible.

A thing is rationally possible when affirming it does not violate a necessary rational truth. To declare something impossible requires an argument for impossibility; unfamiliarity with an event under ordinary worldly conditions is insufficient.

The argument for the possibility of divine vision asks whether seeing necessarily includes a property impossible for God, such as corporeality. If body, direction and divisibility are not essential to the concept of seeing, the normal physical conditions of worldly observation cannot by themselves prove rational impossibility.

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Rational possibility and necessary impossibility

Vision of God: Possibility, Evidence, Objections and Transcendence

جائزة في العقل
It is rationally possible.

A thing is rationally possible when affirming it does not violate a necessary rational truth. To declare something impossible requires an argument for impossibility; unfamiliarity with an event under ordinary worldly conditions is insufficient.

The argument for the possibility of divine vision asks whether seeing necessarily includes a property impossible for God, such as corporeality. If body, direction and divisibility are not essential to the concept of seeing, the normal physical conditions of worldly observation cannot by themselves prove rational impossibility.