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    Each Person of the Trinity is divine. — Carmelics
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    Each Person of the Trinity is divine.

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    • Each Person has all the divine attributes.
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    • 1.Divinity entails uniqueness: if X is divine, no distinct being Y can also be divine (monotheism's logical core).
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    • 2.Three numerically distinct Persons each being fully divine entails three Gods, violating strict monotheism.
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    • 1.Aquinas holds that divine simplicity requires God to be identical with each of His attributes, admitting no real distinctions.
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    • 2.If each Person is fully divine yet really distinct from the others, at least two beings are identical to the same divine essence, making them identical to each other—contradicting their distinction.
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    SEP: trinity
    Swinburne 2018
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    Swinburne aims to build his theory on widespread traditional agreements between most catholic theologians since at least the fourth and fifth centuries (Swinburne 2018, Section 1). The Persons of the Trinity are three beings, each a self which satisfies Boethius’s definition of a “person” as “an individual substance (substantia) of a rational nature” (421). Each is divine in that each has all the divine attributes. “A divine person is naturally understood as one who is essentially eternally omnipotent and exists (in some sense) ’necessarily’” (427). He argues that omnipotence entails perfect g...
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    Validity: The passage states "Each is divine in that each has all the divine attributes," which directly presents having all the divine attributes as the reason each Person is divine, matching the extracted argument.

    Confidence: Clearly stated in the text.

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