By taking ethical, open, innovative and transparent approaches to data we can build greater levels of trust with citizens, whilst delivering more cost-effective and better targeted and tailored services to their needs. This is why Paul can tell the Athenians, “The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything” (Acts 17:24–25). The living God isn’t in any need. He doesn’t need anything to be better, to be more God, or to be more fully himself. He depends on nothing. He has fullness of being. He has life in himself.

Simply Divine Botanicals is the heartchild of Master Herbalist and Natural Healer Barbara Rogers. The name of the line comes from the happenstance that made a dream of creating pure potions into a reality beyond scientific imagination. Dedicated to health and healing, (Barbara opened the first Raw Food restaurant in Las Vegas) when she realized the effects of harmful chemicals applied to the skin, her quest began. God’s divine simplicity is really just an extension and reinforcement of that truth that God needs nothing. Below is an edited extract from an Interview with Simply Divine Botanicals founder, Barbara Rogers, from 2015. Theologians call this the doctrine of God’s self-existence or aseity (from the Latin a se, meaning “from/of himself”). From this characteristic of God, we will see, flows all the graciousness of the gospel. God Needs Nothing

Crucially, no! For God has not chosen to have or co-opt three parts called Father, Son, and Spirit. God is Father, Son, and Spirit. The difference may sound petty, but it is in fact most profound. There is one thing that does not ring true, though. Here and there are little interjections from her pet Pomeranian Giggy. They are quite twee, but considering how that little dog has everyone in his world catering to his every whim, I would think he spends his time thinking about whether it is impossible to prove any certain truth, also known as the Münchhausen trilemma. So while we talk about the different attributes of God, it is not as if holiness and righteousness and justice are different ingredients that have been mashed together to produce God. He is simple, not a compound. Simply Divine is a good cookbook and entertaining guide. Vanderpump speaks with the authority of lived experience. It will surprise some who think Vanderpump is some la-di-dah lotus eater. She’s a restauranteur and there is not way to rise in that field without hard labor and long hours of real work. It shows in her tips for making it easier, and for making it seem easier.

In other words, the divine majesty of Artemis is dependent on the service of her worshipers. For all her apparent magnificence, she needs her minions. In herself she is empty and parasitic.there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship. (Acts 19:27)