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    It is not the case that Aseity is not essential to divinity (i.e., not essential for being worthy of worship).

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.The Nicene Creed's silence on aseity reflects a polemical context targeting Arianism, not a considered judgment that aseity is theologically dispensable.
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    • 2.Classical theists from Augustine through Aquinas explicitly grounded worship-worthiness in God's esse subsistens—pure self-subsistent being—making aseity constitutive, not incidental, to divinity.
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    • 3.A being receiving existence or perfections from an external source inherits a prior metaphysical debt, which structurally disqualifies it as a fitting terminus of ultimate religious devotion.
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    • 1.A being whose existence or nature depends on another cannot be the ultimate ground of all value, and worship requires directing oneself toward the ultimate ground of all value.
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    • 2.Anselm's concept of God as that than which nothing greater can be conceived entails aseity, since a dependent being is conceivably surpassed by an independent one of equal attributes.
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    • 1.The intuition that divinity requires aseity is not shared by those who drew up the Nicene creed.
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    • 2.The qualities of omnipotence, omniscience, eternality, perfect goodness, and necessary existence are sufficient to guarantee the worship-worthiness of the Persons.
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