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    The distance between God and any thing in space is zero (... — Carmelics
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    The distance between God and any thing in space is zero (the 'Zero Thesis').

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    • 1.God has no spatial location.
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    • 2.There can be a spatial distance only between things or locations in space.
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    • 3.Therefore, there is no spatial distance between God and things in space.
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    • 1.Distance is a relational property requiring two terms that both instantiate spatial properties for the relation to be well-formed.
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    • 2.If God lacks spatial properties entirely, the distance relation between God and spatial objects is undefined, not zero.
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    • 3.An undefined value is categorically distinct from zero distance, which would entail co-location or identity of position.
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    • 1.Pseudo-Dionysius and the apophatic tradition hold that divine attributes resist positive quantification, including relational magnitudes like distance.
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    • 2.Assigning zero distance to God's relation to space is a positive quantitative claim that covertly re-introduces spatiality into divine nature.
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    • 3.A genuinely non-spatial being should be described as outside the metric space entirely, as Leftow argues in 'Time and Eternity', not as occupying a privileged metric value.
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    Consider the claim that God has no spatial location. Since there can be a spatial distance only between things or locations in space, this implies that there is no spatial distance between God and things in space. From this, Leftow infers that the distance between God and any thing in space is zero (the “Zero Thesis”) (Leftow 1991: 222).

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