Assertion: monotheism's god | /r/HasProperty | simple
Facets:
value: in the sense
type: OTHER
value: infinitely
type: DEGREE
value: often
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: God is often thought to be simple in the sense that each of God’s real properties is identical with each of his other real properties, and with his being or nature.
text: If God is simple, however, it seems that there can be only one god.
text: Suppose that God is simple in the sense that, for any two of his first-order properties, P and Q, either P is identical with Q or P is logically equivalent to Q (that is, it is impossible for him to possess P without possessing Q, and vice versa).
text: It therefore seems that if God is simple, there can’t be two gods.
text: While the arguments we have discussed in the last two sections are impressive, they hinge on claims that would not be accepted by all theists—that God is simple, for example, or that there are real individual essences, or that any wholly or perfectly divine being exhausts the fullness of divinity.
text: Catholic theology holds that God is infinitely simple and is not involuntarily subject to time.