Is Divine Simplicity Unintelligible Nonsense? #shorts

An excerpt from a response by Dr Ryan Mullins and Dr Alan Rhoda to Gavin Ortlund's claims on the doctrine of Divine Simplicity.

For more, check out the full video here on the channel.

[lyterman]

Don't know these other guys, but Newton was a Unitarian. I think maybe more important would be the Church fathers, who nearly all affirmed some form of simplicity.

[undergroundpublishing]

Divine Simplicity seems to be simply Monadism, with an illusion of there being three persons in the godhead.

[emmaus]

Isaac Newton is not the best guy to appeal to if you want to return to a "biblical view of God" since he was an Arian heretic.

Divine Simplicity does seem to have its problems, though.

[OrthodoxInquiry]

Divine simplicity is fine, as it simply means God is not composed of parts. Absolute Divine Simplicity, however, is neo-Eunomian heresy.

[barry.anderberg]

You need to get Ryan on with Chris Tomaszewski. Never gonna happen but man would it be fun to see.

[robertlee]

"You have the face shape of an INTJ."
-an MBTI phrenoligist, probably.

[coreylapinas]

It's just tautological; it's whatever God is able to do and know. They just make up nonsense that makes God sound powerful l, like he can voluntarily create time, rather than needing it to do anything.

[bradleymarshall]

I mean e=mc^2 may appear unintelligible for those who don’t understand particle physics all that well. Doesn’t make it wrong. Also Clarke and Isaac Newton considered the trinity unintelligible nonsense just like divine similarity so that’s not helping his case at all. It’s very concerning how much like them this guy’s approach greatly resembles that of Unitarians

[wretchedsinnerRighteousSavior]

What if God's attributes flow out of His loving nature - if God is love then that means he has to hate that which is wicked perfectly. Many more attributes flow out of His very nature being love.

[Shark_fishing]

Isaac Newton also said time Is an illusion, the future is as unchangeable as the past, and will play out exactly as it was meant to… you know, just a minor figure from history. 😉

[cfypqgh]

Is it ok if I judge this guys views based on the fact he's wearing black nail polish?

[MissouriBaptistApologetics]

Yeah, appeal to Newton, an Arian on the nature of God, LOL. I'd rather reference the fathers, who affirmed simplicity.

This modernist challenge to DS operates by changing the definition of a property- like plantinga you implicitly reject aristotle / aquinas's definition for a modern one, whereby properties are mere impersonal abstractions, rather than attributes intimately residing in and inseparable from the entities they describe.

[Mr.MacMan]

Divine simplicity is false. Essence-energies distinction is where it’s at. Orthodoxy is the way.

[primeobjective]

God has multiple attributes; merciful and wrathful. This violates the definition of Divine Simplicity.