Theology of Nothingness

From my stack of random musings...

Sunday, September 19, 2010

10:45 PM

When there is true nothingness to work with, there is philosophical chaos, that is, indescribable pure contradiction. From this, God used logic, His Word, His Truth, Jesus Christ, His Son to form the definition of existence with His wisdom, as given through the Holy Spirit. Hence, that which exists was created from nothingness by God the Father, through the Son, and with the Holy Spirit.

Now since God is good, and therefore that which has God in it or sustaining its existence it is good, that which does not have God in it or sustaining its existence (save God Himself) is not good. That which is not good must then be evil. There cannot be anything less than a dichotomy between the two, for God is either in it and/or sustaining it or He is not in it and/or sustaining it. Hence, all things are either good or evil. Indeed, all creation in and of itself is good, since God sustains its existence. Now whether or not it is morally good, that is, complying with God's law, is irrelevant. This particular quality or property applies to the physical realm, which is entirely good because God made it to be so (a direct result of Him creating it). Therefore, anything that exists and any motion that is in the physical realm is good. However, such acts are neither good nor evil with respect to morals. Moral goodness is on a different plane than natural goodness.

Moral goodness is spiritual goodness, that is, having God in oneself spiritual. From the fall of man, sin came into the world, not to remove its physical goodness (as though that were even possible) but to remove its spiritual goodness. When sin entered the world, goodness, by natural definition, left the world, and hence sin entered. Sin, in its essential form, is evil. Rather, it is the act of evil, which is synonymous with motion. However, it is notable that particles in the physical universe are a peculiar unity of matter (substance) and energy (ability to generate motion). Therefore, it is not impossible to imagine that term "sin" (motion/act of evil) correlate with the term "evil" (lack of the substance of divinity in the spiritual realm). The overlapping of the meanings of "sin", "evil", and "death" are thence inseparable. This is not surprising, since God, who is life, would have left this world (or rather, the world left Him since He does not move due to His absoluteness) and sin entered it. If then God, who is life, is gone from the world, death has entered.

The most peculiar relationship, however, is the philosophical relationship between philosophical chaos and evil. The two are almost entirely synonymous, since evil is derived from philosophical chaos. The nature of philosophical chaos is pure contradiction: something is both true and not true, existing and not existing. Truth itself is and yet is not. The surprising attribute about this fact is that from philosophical chaos there can, with divine logic, spawn something that is both truth and existing. That is, the Logos of God (the Word, or Logic) of God, which is Truth itself, can imbed itself into this philosophical chaos and cause it to be in conformity with itself: that is, force this contradiction to become truth and to exist. Thus, in this manner, God sustains the universe. This is true if nothingness, from which God created the universe, is itself philosophical chaos. Yet how could it be anything else, unless God made the universe out of Himself (which is certainly not the cause, or else He would have been making it out of something). Nothingness itself is the absence of everything, including God. And if God is not in nothingness, than neither is anything belonging to His nature, especially truth, divine logic, and existence. If something does not have truth or anything else as part of its essence, it is, by definition, philosophical chaos and nothingness. Furthermore, to speak of it as though it had truth is a lie. And a lie is evil. Hence, all of the words describing the absence of God are linked, one deriving another: evil and sin are the spiritual forms of nothingness and philosophical chaos; lies and darkness (in the spiritual sense of the term, considering that God is in glory, which is spiritual light) are the spiritual forms of the absence of truth. The words "evil" and "sin" are describing particularly that spiritual absence of God not the physical absence of Him. The entrance of evil is the soul's (or object's) departure from the spiritual world as sustained by God. This departure leaves an emptiness in man. Considering that the spiritual world as sustained by God did not exist before Creation, and then came to be, it was evil that was swallowed up, just as philosophical chaos was. Thus, it is logical to say that God created the spiritual realm (universe) out of evil, and then "God saw that it was good."

Insult on Modern Philosophy

Thursday, February 04, 2010

8:35 PM

Some years ago, I learned about what might be called "modern philosophy". By this, I do not mean simply any philosophy of modern times; I speak of a specific philosophy, or set of philosophical beliefs, methods, or practices that have been the result of the lack of meaning in the lives of the philosophers. That is to say, modern philosophy results from rejecting anything fundamental, including principles and logic and most especially meaning. Without logic, principles, or meaning, everything in the philosophical universe is reduced to nothing or thrown away. With this modern philosophy, man is attempting to throw away everything and then question what remains.

Modern philosophy, contrary to the idea that man might be enlightened from exploring nothing, in effect reduces life to a hopeless pit in which man can do nothing to escape. He can search for truth but is told by modern philosophers that he cannot prove it. After modern philosophy throws everything away, man automatically assigns himself the task of attempting to rebuild his world from nothing. It is natural for him to take on this task. However, this is a futile task because modern philosophy is not designed to unlock the meaning of life; modern philosophy is designed to condemn man, to leave him wretched in meaninglessness and seal his lips from protest. Man can in no way argue against this philosophy on its own ground. Its proponents make it appear as authority over this realm, but it is silent. It cannot hear the arguments of man nor is it supposed to. It is like a god that is not made of wood or stone but a god that is imaginary, a myth, enthroned by rebels who are tired of having a real god to serve. It is as if somehow modern philosophy is a set of rules that forbid arguing against it, as though it is something we all must obey and yet it gives no orders other than the implied command that we must not be confident in anything, even truth. It attempts to take truth and disestablish it. Furthermore, it causes men to lose a realistic perspective. In the real world, truth does exist, logic can lead to truth, and things can be proven as true, that is to say for tangible events, the probability that an argument concerning an event is providing truth is so great it must be that truth.

What are we to do with modern philosophy? Modern philosophy must serve only as a door, signifying not reality as it has been said to be, but as a doorway into what reality should have been. The difference between what is presented to man by modern philosophy and what is presented by reality is the fact that there is a God in reality. Modern philosophy attempts to snatch from man logic, truth, and meaning, whereas God gives all of those things to man. To some extent, what modern philosophy presents allows us to realize things about reality that cannot be noticed in it. It allows us to see the relativity of things. However, only when one returns to reality does one see that absolute truth is not disestablished, but rather, self-established. All things are connected by such relativity, but each real thing contributes by its relativity to absolute truth. Absolute truth is truth that applies to all things, whereas relative truth (if it is to be true) is the relationship between things from the perspective of one thing. God, who is absolute truth itself, is then a relative and absolute in and of Himself. Thus, it is not contradictory to say that truth is both relative and absolute: relative to God and established, and is thus absolute, because of God's own existence.

What modern philosophy presents, that is, the result of the absence of God, is also the most undeniable proof that there is a God (a god who is, at the very least, truth itself and author (in a manner of speaking) of logic and meaning)! In order to have reality, there must be a closed system, that is, a system isolated from the nothingness that modern philosophy presents. What else can establish such a system that is not truth itself?