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    It is not the case that The divine nature is not a fourth substance numerically distinct from the three Persons

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    • 1.On realist universals ontology, a shared nature constitutes a genuine ontological entity distinct from its particular instances.
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    • 2.If the divine nature is a real universal fully instantiated by three distinct persons, it functions as a fourth ontological item in the divine inventory.
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    • 3.Denying the divine nature is a fourth substance requires abandoning realist universals, but Trinitarian theology historically relies on realist ontology to explain shared essence.
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    • 1.John Philoponus argued that substances individuated by distinct properties are numerically distinct substances, making the three Persons three distinct substances.
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    • 2.If each Person fully possesses the divine nature as their own substance, the divine nature is multiply instantiated rather than numerically singular.
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    • 3.A numerically singular nature shared across three individuals collapses into either modalism or an uninstantiated abstract fourth entity, on standard mereological accounts.
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    • 1.The divine nature is numerically the same substance as each of the three Persons
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    • 2.If it were a fourth distinct substance, it could not be numerically the same as each of the three
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