{"id":2801,"date":"2020-12-01T13:41:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/01\/divine-simplicity-and-incarnation\/"},"modified":"2020-12-01T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T13:41:32","slug":"divine-simplicity-and-incarnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/01\/divine-simplicity-and-incarnation\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Simplicity and Incarnation"},"content":{"rendered":"

This from a reader:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jordan Daniel Wood . . . affirms that God does not have possibilities within himself to actualize and thus the Incarnation\u2014God becoming a human being\u2014must in some way [be] actual prior to its historical event; God does not become a human being but in some way already is a human being . . . .
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Very interesting. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The simple God is actus purus<\/em>. Purely actual, he embodies no unrealized powers or unactualized potentialities.  He is, eternally, all that he can be.  We think of the Incarnation, however, as a contingent event.  In the patois of 'possible worlds':  The triune God exists in all metaphysically possible worlds, but the Second Person of the Trinity becomes human in only some of them. The following argument suggests itself:
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1) The Word became flesh and dwellt among us.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2) The Word's becoming flesh is a contingent event.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3) There is no contingency and no becoming in any of the three divine persons: the Word cannot become flesh, that is, assume human nature. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4) The Word (Logos, Second Person) had a divine and human nature from all eternity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How could a classical Christian trinitarian theist rebut this argument? (Part of being a classical Christian theist is accepting the divine simplicity<\/a>.)
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