You cannot rank God’s attributes higher than the others. We cannot say God is loving but sometimes he shows His angry wrath and just fury. God is always ever living out who He is in his most excellent Being! God is distinct and infinite and most transcendent above all else! (That’s what it means, again, for God to be holy!) 

The Simplicity of God means that God’s being is not made up of many parts that ‘work together’ to make Him God. What makes God to be God is not a collection of wonderful attributes and qualities. Rather, God’s attributes and qualities and aspects are not part of Him but they are who He truly is. There is no distinction and no separation and no collection of qualities that are collected together to make God God. 

Fundamentally, God is one Being. He is perfect, glorious, unified, exalted, transcendent and different than us. He is unique, unrivaled, unparalleled, unfathomable and unmatched in His beauty and excellence. 

We can better understand the simplicity of God when he contrast it with human beings. We are very different from God in this regard. Human beings are made up of many parts that contribute to who we are as people, as individuals, as persons, all made in the image of God. For example, we may be wise but our wisdom does not make up who we are as infinitely wise beings. We may be powerful and able to lift much weight in the gym but that power does not make up who we are as infinitely omnipotent beings. These qualities are part of who we are but they do not comprise the fullness of our beings and personhood.  But with God, His attributes are simply who He is without any fleeting separation or the smallest distinction. 

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