| “ | It is divine simplicity that enables Christians to meaningfully confess that God is most absolute in his existence and attributes. adherents to this doctrine reason that of God were composed of parts in any sense he would be dependent upon those parts for his very being and thus the parts would be ontologically prior to him. If this were the case he would not be most absolute, that is, wholly self-sufficient and the first principle of all other things. Thus, only if God is "without parts" can he be "most absolute." God without parts |
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| ~ James E. Dolezal |
Summary[]
Divine Simplicity is the theological concept that "God" exists not in parts but as a wholly unified existence devoid of distinct attributes and whose existence is just simply itself, with attributes being entirely separate from the unity that is "God" themselves. What this means is that "God" is just simply "God", with all attributes and qualities being just simply "God".
This can be conveyed in the idea that anything that can be named would just simply be "God". For example, "God" does not have existence for they are existence itself or "God" isn't omniscient nor is it something "God" possesses as opposed to "God" being omniscience itself. In short, Divine Simplicity can be looked at as "God’s" various traits being, in reality, indivisible and indistinguishable from "God" themselves.
How Is This Treated On-Site[]
When it comes to attempting to tier Divine Simplicity, it depends on how it's treated in the context of the fictional universe. It needs to be specified to what degree is "Divine Simplicity" being applied here, as merely being an indivisible and indistinguishable oneness at most will scale a character to the scale and scope of their cosmology without any further context or information to elaborate on just how "ineffable" this oneness is in relation to the components that exist within the universe that character exists in. So what all of this means is that Divine Simplicity has no inherent tier and depends on context, as it can be anywhere from Low 2-C to 1-A Ω depending on what's described in regards to the character that possess Divine Simplicity or a state of existence akin to it
There's also the prospect that Divine Simplicity can overlap with Apophatic Theology, both within the realm of fiction and even outside of it, with these two ideas often going hand and hand to support one another. So what this entails is that certain fictional universes will depict Divine Simplicity indifferently from Apophatic Theology, in which case the same standards in which are accepted for that can apply with Divine Simplicity as well. This would mean that a character that has Divine Simplicity and dimensionality as a concept is part of that "simplicity", then they would be 1-A at the minimum on the basis of ontologically surpassing the concept of dimensions