(November 30, 2009 at 3:49 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: @ Evie does an essence exist? And if so, how?
The existence of the essence precedes all other characteristics of that essence.
For something to have any other characteristics... it must first possess the characteristic of existence (in some form or another). If 'God' is a feeling... then he must exist as a feeling. If he is an idea... then he must exist as an idea.
Essence is existence... to be without essence is to not exist. How do you justify the belief that 'God' does not exist... when you also state that he still 'is'?
To be is to exist. The question from there is in which form.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
