Natural Revelation of Existence

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen. The Natural Revelation concerning the relationship between awareness and existence has been completed. Now we focus on the exact nature of existence. I will address 2 problems, the problem of existence as the traditional philosophy understands it, and the problem of existence as understood from the Natural Revelation that God has given us.

In conventional or traditional philosophy, there are things which exist and things which does not exist. This presupposes that for things with a beginning, there is a time where that thing does not have existence. Now this understanding of existence is based on materialism, and not theism. Strangely, theistic philosophy subscribes partially to that understanding of existence, that there is a beginning in existence, and then there is an existence without any beginning, but that is a different issue. The problem with this understanding of existence is it is wholly presuppositional and arbitrary, without any clear proof or evidence.

I will present an alternative understanding of existence based on the Natural Revelation of God. This alternative understanding is based on the nature of beginnings in an existence. Since the most certain truth we have is awareness, we shall use that truth. When a particular awareness begins, we say that before it begins, the awareness does not exist. Yet this is the problem, if something has no existence before it begins, how can it begin to exist in the first place? Instead, the existence begins relative to us, and precedes our awareness in essential existence.

If something has a beginning, it is necessary that it has a reason for beginning. Forget low level causes, but look to the highest level of reality. If something has a beginning, it means there is no limitation to its existence, its existence is allowed within reality. Now, if its existence is allowed, then its existence must have been contained somewhere within reality before it enters our reality. If its existence is not allowed, or never there to begin with, then it can never enter our awareness. It is the precise fact that the object is contained “somewhere” that points to its eternal existence.

Can the object end then? It seems absurd, but there is no actual law which is against that. However, what does it mean for an object to end? We know that the ultimate existence of an object is within the allowance and limitations of reality. Now since that existence of an object is involved with the entire time that object is involved with other objects, then if the object truly ends, then its ending is eternal. It will affect the entirety of reality which has a relationship with that object. Yet, here is the problem. Reality “remembers” that the object once existed in it. The fact that there was a period of existence where the object exists cannot be erased, the truth cannot change. No matter how much the object is destroyed or ended, the truth remains.

What this tells us is that objects fundamentally have no beginning or end. Then would this not contradict the existence of change? No it does not. In fact, it explains and clarifies the meaning of change. Change is a matter of awareness, not existence. However, we can say that there is a mode or way or form of existence which does begin and end, this is what we call actual existence. However, actual existence is not the ultimate existence of any object. The ultimate existence of any object is that eternal existence each object has, also known as essential existence as it is the existence of objects in their essence. So we know that existence is eternal in their essence.

What else can be know about the existential nature of objects? So far, I have no further ideas about existence. However, we can summarize that there are 2 forms of existence, that is essential and actual existence. Actual existence can begin and end, but essential existence has no beginning or end. Actual existence is existence within relative awareness, while essential existence is the higher and ultimate form of existence of objects within reality itself, independent of awareness. It can be said that actual existence is simply finite centers of awareness navigating through the essential existence in a finite manner, as opposed to infinite awareness, which shall be discussed in the next writing. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen.


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