A defense of Divine Simplicity

The doctrine of Divine Simplicity means that God has no parts, and thus is identical to his existence, thus God is "love" or "truth". Divine Simplicity has been taught by the earliest Christians since Irenaeus, only being recently criticized by people such as James White and William Lane Craig.

Biblically, God can be said to "being itself" as Exodus 3:14 states "And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you."

This verse can be said to imply God to be being itself, as God identifies himself as "I am".

Multiple times, the bible also identifies God as being identical to his attributes, thus John declares: "God is love" in 1 John 4:8. In the same epistle John said: "God is light". 

The doctrine was also clearly taught by Early Christians, as Irenaeus who lived between 130-202 said thus:

He is a simple, uncompounded Being, without diverse members, and altogether like, and equal to himself, since He is wholly understanding, and wholly spirit, and wholly thought, and wholly intelligence, and wholly reason, and wholly hearing, and wholly seeing, and wholly light, and the whole source of all that is good- even as the religious and pious are wont to speak concerning God.

Against Heresies (Book II, Chapter 13)