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    It is not the case that God can be considered 'personal' even if God is not identical to any personal being

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    • 1.Predicate transfer from parts to wholes commits the fallacy of composition unless the predicate is specifically distributive.
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    • 2.Personhood is a non-distributive predicate: a committee of persons is not itself a person in the morally and metaphysically relevant sense.
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    • 3.Therefore, God having personal parts does not entail that God is personal in any theologically or philosophically meaningful sense.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Classical theism, from Aquinas through the Thomistic tradition, holds that God is absolutely simple and cannot be a composite of parts.
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    • 2.If God has no parts, then God cannot derive personhood from having personal parts, undermining the Trinity monotheism strategy entirely.
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    • 3.Any account of divine personhood must be compatible with divine simplicity, which rules out mereological grounding of divine attributes.
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    • 1.On Trinity monotheism, God is not identical to any single personal being
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    • 2.Having personal parts is sufficient for something to be considered 'personal'
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    • 3.God has personal parts (the persons of the Trinity)
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