The medieval doctrine of divine simplicity also poses problems for religious language.
If divine simplicity is accepted, then to describe God as good would entail that goodness and God have the same definition.
This etymology is consistent with the Jewish conception of divine simplicity.
Yet you have the divine simplicity, the goodness.
In theology, the doctrine of divine simplicity says that God is without parts.
The general idea of divine simplicity can be stated in this way: the being of God is identical to the "attributes" of God.
For typical Christian theologians, divine simplicity does not entail that the attributes of God are indistinguishable to thought.
Plantinga concludes that divine simplicity does not do justice to the personal nature of the Christian God.
At times they display a divine simplicity.
This distinction clearly goes against the churches tenant of divine simplicity.