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    It is not the case that God lacks parts (both spatial/temporal and metaphysical).

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Divine simplicity requires God's essence, existence, and attributes to be strictly identical.
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    • 2.If God's mercy is identical to God's justice, then mercy and justice are identical to each other, which is logically incoherent.
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    • 3.A doctrine that generates logical contradictions cannot accurately describe a metaphysically real being, however transcendent.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Alvin Plantinga argues that if God is identical to His properties, God is an abstract object, which cannot be a personal agent who acts.
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    • 2.A being without any metaphysical distinctions—such as between potentiality and act—cannot coherently be said to know, will, or create contingent things differently than necessary ones.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.God is simple in that God transcends every form of complexity and composition familiar to the discursive intellect.
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    • 2.This lack of parts is not a deficiency but a positive feature: God is ontologically superior to every partite entity.
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