  Is this argument entirely compelling, though? Arguably, it is impossible for any individual to exemplify all the possible ways of being human or all of the possible ways of being rational. So why assume that it is possible for a being to exemplify all the possible ways of being divine? Why think, in other words, that there aren’t different and mutually exclusive ways of exemplifying divinity—being Allah as depicted in the Quran, for example, or being the triune God of Christianity, or the Vishnu of the Shri Vaishnavas? (For more on some of these possibilities see section 7 below.) Or again, suppose that the relevant differentiating property is having a certain emotional or mental temper—Yahweh’s as depicted in the Hebrew Bible, say, or Krishna’s as depicted in the Bhagavata Purana. Suppose further that neither of these emotional or mental tempers is better or more worshipful than the other. Isn’t it an open question, at least, whether either of these emotional or mental tempers is essential to divinity although they may be essential to being Yahweh or being Krishna, respectively? If they aren’t, then it is by no means clear that any being can exhaust the fullness of divinity.