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God is not complex. Simplicity is essential to God. His attributes are Himself, not parts of Himself. Heppe: "All dogmaticians pronounce accordingly, e.g., Hottinger, p. 44: 'The attributes are distinguished neither from the essence nor from each other but only by our conceiving.'" (Reformed Dogmatics, p. 59.)
Civbert's insistence that God's knowledge is bound by the laws of logic (as per the archetype/ectype thread) shuts him up to the conclusion that God has parts as if He were finite. This is what happens when you make a god no bigger than what your own mind can conceive. I am sorry to be harsh, but this is the brutal consequence of deviating from the reformed tradition.
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Yours sincerely,
"Illum oportet crescere me autem minui."
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