  Although this solves one problem for Berkeley, it creates several more. The first is that Berkeley’s other commitments, religious and philosophical, dictate that God cannot literally have our ideas. Our ideas are sensory ideas and God is a being who “can suffer nothing, nor be affected with any painful sensation, or indeed any sensation at all” (3D 206). Nor can our sensory ideas be copies of God’s nonsensory ones (McCracken 1979):