The surah details a highly literalist, anthropomorphic description of the Day of Judgment that strips God of His immaterial, omnipresent, infinite nature.
Surah 69:17:
And the angels will be at its edges. And there will bear the Throne of your Lord above them, that Day, eight [of them].
The word "bear" (yahmilu) has the meaning to bear, carry, or hoist the weight of something.
The text explicitly states that on the Day of Judgment, a precise mathematical number—eight angels—will physically support and carry the weight of God's throne (Arsh). From a biblical and philosophical standpoint, this creates an acute theological contradiction:
An infinite, omnipresent, immaterial Spirit cannot possess physical mass or weight.
If the Throne requires created beings to hold it up so it does not fall, then God’s sovereignty is dependent upon His own creation.
If God is sitting upon a structure that must be physically hoisted by eight entities, God is being subjected to the physical laws of gravity, mass, and spatial constraints.
The character of God revealed in the Bible, where God’s presence fills the entire cosmos and cannot be contained by any localized structure or physical seat:
1 Kings 8:27:
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
By confining God to a specific physical object (a throne) that exists in a specific location (above the heads of eight angels), the Quran compromises the true transcendence of God.
It models the Almighty after a 7th-century Near Eastern tribal monarch who requires palace guards or bearers to carry his litter or royal seat during an official procession.