RE: Do to really believe a snake talked?!
November 9, 2012 at 4:52 am
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2012 at 5:02 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 8, 2012 at 8:01 pm)Godschild Wrote: Non-existence does make sense, and I do agree with your definition of non-existence. What I do not agree with is that everything was non-existent. God has always been and is the cause of all that has ever existed.
Non-existence is impossible. The idea of a non-existent thing doesn't make sense because a non-existent thing isn't a thing. It's nothing.
Imaginary things exist, sure. But they actually exist then, in your imagination, as ideas. If imaginary things didn't exist in the sense of them being completely absent then they would also be absent from our minds/brains.
The imagination is, of course, imaginary. So in a way it isn't real and therefore doesn't exist. But does this mean it doesn't exist in the sense that we don't have an imagination? No.
These are two different definitions of non-existent: Non-existent in the sense of absent, and non-existent in the sense of imaginary. Let us not confuse the two. Yes there are imaginary things, but are there completely absent things? Things that aren't even present in an imaginary form? No. No things are absent from the totality of existence itself because if anything was absent from that totality it wouldn't be a thing. So, in that sense everything exists. The imagination actually exists in the sense that it is present: people have an imagination. If it's absent then it doesn't exist because it isn't anything at all. That is clearly not the case because we do actually have an imagination.
