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    If God simply is his attributes, then divine justice and ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God must be rather than have his attributes (the doctrine of divine simplicity).

    If God simply is his attributes, then divine justice and divine mercy are identical, which contradicts the logical incompatibility of their extensions across cases.

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    • 1.Justice demands proportional punishment; mercy demands forgiveness. These have opposite behavioral implications in identical cases.
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    • 2.If God is identical to his attributes, then justice = mercy entails they have identical extensions. But they demonstrably differ.
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    • 3.Classical theism requires God to be simple (non-composite). Simple identity of attributes creates logical contradictions requiring rejection.
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    • 1.Justice and mercy need not be identical in extension; they can be unified properties expressing the same divine nature differently contextually.
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    • 2.The argument conflates conceptual distinction with metaphysical distinction. Attributes are mentally distinguished but ontologically unified in God.
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    • 3.God's transcendence may permit apparent contradictions to resolve at a higher logical level unavailable to human categorical thinking.
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