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“We all believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths that there is a single, and simple spiritual being, whom we call God…” This is the opening statement in the first article of the Belgic Confession, written in 1561. We are used to hearing and saying that we believe in one single God, but a simple God? What could this mean? By “simple” we do not mean that God is basic or easy to understand. We do not mean that God does not care about details. Instead, the simplicity of God means God is not made up of his attributes. He does not consist of goodness, mercy, justice, and power. He is goodness, mercy, justice, and power. All of His attributes are simply who He is in His essence. Therefore, we cannot suggest, for example, that the love of God is the true nature of God while justice or sovereignty is only an attribute of God. This would imply that love is more central to his true identity than other less important attributes. But this is to imagine God as a composite being instead of simple.  1 John 4:8 says, “God is love.” 1 John 1:5 says, “God is light.” John 4:24, “God is Spirit.” Hebrews 12:29, “God is a consuming fire.” All of these, and every other found in Scripture, is identical with who God is. There is no attribute of God that we find in the Bible that is “thrown in” or “tossed out” in certain times or situations. God is perfectly who He is, at all times, in all situations, without compromise. Understanding the simplicity of God matters because it helps us think about God in the right way. We don’t think of God by himself and then relate certain attributes to Him. God is not a lego tower made up of many parts. He isn’t a kitchen recipe with lots of ingredients. God is in a class by himself, not a type of divine being. Deuteronomy 6:4 says, “Listen, Israel. The Lord our God, The Lord is one.” In Exodus 3, “Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?” God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.” There is only one God and everything about this one God is absolutely essential to being God.