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    It is not the case that Classical theism therefore requires that each person just is the divine nature, making absolute identity, not non-identity, the theologically orthodox position.

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    • 1.Personal identity requires distinctness: I am not you despite shared human nature. Identity with divine nature would erase this logical distinction.
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    • 2.If each person just is the divine nature, then all persons would be identical to each other (transitivity), contradicting obvious fact of distinct persons.
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    • 3.Classical theism traditionally maintains Creator-creature distinction; identifying persons with divine nature collapses this foundational metaphysical boundary.
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    • 1.God's absolute simplicity entails that God's essence and existence are identical, so anything that exists in God must be the divine nature itself.
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    • 2.Classical theism holds God is infinite and all-encompassing; denying identity with persons makes God's nature external to what He most fundamentally is.
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    • 3.If persons were non-identical to the divine nature, God would be composite (nature + persons), contradicting divine simplicity and aseity.
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