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    A theism that understands itself must uphold God's ontolo... — Carmelics
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    A theism that understands itself must uphold God's ontological simplicity.

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    • God's ontological simplicity is implied by the divine aseity.
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    • 1.Divine aseity requires only that God depends on nothing external for existence, not that God lacks internal distinctions.
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    • 2.A God with distinct real properties (omniscience, omnipotence, goodness) can still be wholly self-existent and uncaused.
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    • 3.Therefore, aseity underdetermines simplicity, and the entailment in P1 does not hold.
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    • 1.Theistic personalism (Swinburne, Plantinga) holds that God is a maximally great person with distinct real attributes.
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    • 2.A self-understanding theism can coherently prioritize God's personal agency and intentional action over Neoplatonic metaphysical commitments.
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    • 3.The claim that theism 'must' uphold simplicity privileges one theological tradition (classical theism) over other internally coherent theistic frameworks.
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    As for (2), some reasons were given earlier for thinking that a theism that understands itself must uphold God’s ontological simplicity inasmuch as it is implied by the divine aseity. An example of (3) is Oswald’s shooting of Kennedy. The act was freely performed by Oswald, and the proposition that records it is a contingent truth known by God in his omniscience.

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