A Necessary Being?

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It is imperative (and extremely relevant) to acknowledge the difference between "essential predication" and "accidental predication." If you are ignorant about these terms, read up on them.

I thought we were getting on well, but now suddenly you're all arrogant and insulting.  

A Necessary Being, by definition, cannot not exist. It must exist at all times, places, and worlds. But it is crucial to note that by saying this, I am predicating existence to the Necessary Being as an essential predicate, not as an accidental predicate.

I wonder if you don't just enjoy dressing up simple concepts in abstruse language.  Your first sentence was clear and succinct.  Your second sentence is redundant where it's not wrong.  The third sentence is a waste of words.  

It is impossible to predicate nonexistence to a Necessary Being as an essential predicate, because that would be a contradiction (a Necessary Being is, essentially, existent).

"Essentially existent," nice.  And above, "by definition cannot not exist," also nice.  What do you think you're adding to that with your predication talk, your imperative, extremely relevant (as if that were a concept), and crucial predication talk?  

However, it is indeed possible to predicate nonexistence to a Necessary Being as an accidental predicate. This would not lead to any contradictions (a Necessary Being has existence predicated to it as an essential predicate, not as an accidental predicate, and therefore denying its existence as an accidental predicate does nothing to harm it).

You're saying it is defined as existing even thought it doesn't happen to exist. 

In addition, you're saying I need lessons so I can talk fancy like you.  While I appreciate your concern, Plantinga and William Lane Craig get along fine without your terminology.  I choose to refute them using their own words.  

So one may conceive of a possible world with nonexistence predicated to the Necessary Being as an accidental predicate. This does not mean that a Necessary Being does not exist, because Necessary Beings do not even require existence in all possible worlds as an accidental predicate in the first place.

Now you've just confused yourself with your tricksy talk.  If a necessary being doesn't exist in one possible world, then it doesn't exist in any possible world.