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[Contending that imperfections are negated simply by denying corporeality or spatial confinement does not achieve the intended goal for several reasons:]

Even more invalid is the course followed by those who deny the divine attributes—whether all of them or only some—when they set out to declare Him transcendent of matters from which He most certainly must be declared transcend­ent, matters that amount to the gravest unbelief. They wish, for example, to clear Him of sorrow, weeping, and the like, and to rebut the Jews who claim that He wept over the Flood until His eyes became inflamed and the angels visited Him, as well as those who deify certain human beings and say that he is God.

Many people confront such allegations by arguing that if God possessed these defects and infirmities He would necessarily be a body or confined to a spatial dimension, and that such a thing is impossible.

By adopting this line of reasoning they have in fact enabled the atheists who deny His names and attributes to gain the upper hand, for this approach fails to attain the desired objective for several reasons: