“The emotion of love is an affective emotion, directly reacting to goodness, rather than an aggressive one, reacting to challenge. So when the scriptures ascribe dimensions to God they are using spatial extension to symbolize the extent of God's power just as they ascribe bodily organs to God as metaphors for their functions, and postures like sitting or standing to symbolize authority or strength.” The most excellent existent of all then cannot be a body. Thirdly, living bodies are superior to other bodies and what makes a body living is not the dimensions which make it a body (for then everything with dimensions would be living), but something more excellent like a soul. But the starting-point for all existence must be wholly real and not potential in any way: though things that get realized begin as potential, preceding them is the source of their realization which must already be real.
Secondly, things with dimensions are potential of division. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being changed. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. “God is not, like creatures, made up of parts.
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