Astrophysicists recently took a photo of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. But that is a paradoxical way to describe it. No one can photograph a black hole because it’s a void where space-time rules cease to apply. The picture actually shows super-heated material around the black hole, with the void at the center. To identify the black hole, you take a picture of whatever isn’t in the void.

The idea that God is simple is like that photo. It is one of the most difficult truths for us to understand. It takes us into the alternate reality of God’s being, which we can only discuss using negative terms. Simplicity is the principle that God has no parts. He is not a composite being. If it were possible to take a photo of God, it would not look like Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel in space, but more like the black hole. We could photograph everything around God, things made of parts, but God himself would not appear.

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