The Christian God is NOT simple.

[fr0d0]

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A plan is information, God has a plan, god has information. The more information required to describe any entity, object or state of affairs, the more complex that thing can be said to be. The more information in god's plan, the more complex the proposed state of affairs is - This is the very nature of information. If you want to deny that any of these conditions apply then you are simply NOT talking about information and if that is the case then your God cannot have a plan.

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What does divine simplicity address? Material origins of the cosmos? A point of first cause? Are we talking about the primordeal soup at the beginning of the cosmos? Do we have to insist on a linear God to put him at the beginning? What about the God that 'just is'? How does timelessness fit together with complexity/ simplicity?

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If you were to propose a state of affairs that contained God but no plan or information then I would agree that it is relatively simple, however that is not the state of affairs you propose, you require that this God has a plan and caused the universe such as to realise his goals, correct?

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Indeed correct.

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I am willing to accept for the sake of argument that information can exist in immaterial states of affairs even though I have no idea how it would even be possible. That concession DOES NOT negate the very nature of information. In order to have information you absolutely MUST have some way to represent a concept. I would be interested to hear how you think concepts are represented in this immaterial realm....

Let me give you an example, For instance take a passage from the bible, something that you believe was written by a person who experienced God and was given information. The information given to said persons by this deity is transformed into a pattern of neural activity and then again transformed into a pattern of symbols/sounds, written/spoken language, so it could be communicated to other people. Assuming that this information is an accurate account of God's ideas it means this information is IDENTICAL to that the information God initially communicated. If we can say something about the complexity of the information in this passage of the bible then we can say something about the information it's self, independent of ANY possible medium.

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I don't see the original information as the actual word of God. That would be Allah and Islam. I see that information as people discerning the nature of God. What can simply defined as positive force disseminates into miriad conclusions and propositions aimed at that simple goal.