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God has his properties in a way different from the way any creature has any of its properties—namely, by being them.

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1.God is radically unlike creatures not only in respect of the properties he possesses, but also in his manner of possessing them.
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2.DDS (the doctrine of divine simplicity) affirms God's absolute transcendence of creatures.
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DDS is represented not only in classical Christian theology, but also in Jewish, Greek, and Islamic thought. It is to be understood as an affirmation of God’s absolute transcendence of creatures. God is not only radically non-anthropomorphic, but radically unlike creatures in general, not only in respect of the properties he possesses, but also in his manner of possessing them. It is not just that God has properties no creature has; the properties he has he has in a way different from the way any creature has any of its properties. God has his properties by being them. Unique in his mode of pr...

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Validity: The passage explicitly states that God is radically unlike creatures in his manner of possessing properties and that "God has his properties by being them," and both premises are directly present in the passage, with premise 1 directly leading to the conclusion about God's unique mode of property-possession.

Confidence: Clearly stated reasoning in the passage.

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