 Hasker takes the apparent contradiction to be real. But can he exclude the possibility that the contradiction is merely apparent? His view comports well with the notion that God is a being among beings. But for those who hold that the divine transcendence requires that God transcend beings in his mode of existence, his mode of property-possession, his mode of necessity, and his mode of uniqueness, it may seem more likely that the apparent contradictions that arise when we think about God reflect our structural inability to think of him as anything other than a very special being among beings.