Teuton wrote:Samuel wrote:WLC agrees that "[God is] a person without a body (i.e., a spirit) who necessarily is eternal, perfectly free, omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good, and the creator of all things."
But the philosophical discipline that he borrows the cosmological argument from, Kalām, says that God is an absolute unity, and no attribute can be ascribed to Him..
To say that God is an absolute unity is to ascribe an attribute to him: absolute unity.
By the way, the doctrine of divine simplicity is contentious among the theologians; some accept it, others reject it.
It looks to me that the Kalam Cosmological Argument has similar "stolen concept" types of mistakes.
Divine simplicity... all kinds of different theories, all of that, to me they only seem to emerge to avoid the painful realization that after we die, that's game over and the black screen.