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    Challenges→God is the simplest kind of person there can be.

    If God genuinely has infinite power, knowledge, and freedom as distinct attributes, God is metaphysically complex in precisely the sense classical theists like Aquinas sought to deny.

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    Aquinas
    Thomas Aquinas was a medieval Italian priest and philosopher (1225-1274) who became one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He attempted to show that Christian faith and human reason are compatible, arguing that we can use logic and observation to understand God and the natural world. His ideas deeply shaped Catholic theology and continue to influence how religious and secular institutions think about ethics, knowledge, and the relationship between science and belief.
    Infinite knowledge(describing God's capabilities)
    Knowing everything that can be known, including all facts about the past, present, and future.
    Metaphysically complex(describing God's nature)
    Made up of separate, distinct parts rather than being one unified whole; in the deepest sense of what something fundamentally is.
    attributes(Lowe's four-category ontology)
    A category of universal property that characterizes kinds and is exemplified by objects.

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    classical theism(Contrasted with process theism in the debate over human freedom)
    The theological view, represented by Aquinas, that God's will is perfectly efficacious and that divine sovereignty is compatible with human freedom through dual sufficient causation
    infinite power(as used in theology and philosophy of religion)
    The ability to do anything without limits or constraints; a traditional attribute of God in theology.
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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