He says: “If He is infinite in every direction, this is impossible for several reasons. First, we shall demonstrate the impossibility of an infinite dimension.”
The reply is: You have already refuted the arguments of those who deny this, and have offered only an argument weaker than those of others. Thus, the claim remains unsupported.
He says: “Second, this entails the nonexistence of bodies or their interpenetration, and interpenetration with filthy substances.”
The reply is: Those who hold these views say that none of this follows. Rather, He is infinite, whether He is a body or not. They say that this entails neither the nonexistence of other bodies nor His interpenetration with them.
If they are told, “Reason rules this out,” they reply: “Reason’s rejection of this is like its rejection of His existing as a self-subsisting being who brings the world into existence, while neither indwelling the world nor being separate from it. Indeed, reason rejects the latter more strongly than the former. Whatever defense is offered for the latter by distinguishing imagination from reason applies with even greater force to the former, as has been explained at length elsewhere.”
For these people claimed that to say, “Any two existing entities must either share a locus or be separate,” or “Any two self-subsisting entities must either be separate or in contact,” or “Every self-subsisting entity must be