Does the God or Do Ourselves Exist, or Does Nothing Exist?
The God created the universe and the mankind with expectation that they will come to believe and revere Him. But, Satan starts to impede God's wish.
As a result, the mankind are not yet sure about the existence of the God as well as Satan.
The mankind should think about relationship between the God and the mankind from a view point of the God but not of themselves. It is the existence of the mankind that should be questioned in terms of the meaning of existence. Does the mankind really exist in comparison with the existence of the God. From the beginning, it is a mystery that the God gave existence to the mankind while the mankind do not seem to have value worth its existence while only the God can give existence to any thing.
However, a man knows that if he dies, nothing will exist for him after his death. Yet, from a view point of the God, everything exists after the death of a man. And, as a man cannot create anything from nothing, he cannot give existence to any thing.
Did what exists come to exist spontaneously or by chance? Or did whatever exist come to exist by power of the God? The latter question looks meaningful, useful, and authentic. The God must be the source of existence of whatever exists. With this notion, we can understand the God and must have the fear of the God.
In the space where nothing existed, only the God presided over the space. You might deny such a situation and think that nothing including yourself exists even at this moment. And, Satan will be pleased to see that one man goes mad against anticipation of the God.
So, the last question the mankind is allowed to have must be: why and how did the God come to exist or is there any concept meaning more than existence?
If we admit that we exist, we have to admit existence of the source of existence, which must be the God.
If we die, nothing material exists for us, but the world continues to exist as well as the God. Even if we die, the history goes on. Even the history of the mankind ends, the universe continues to exist. Even if the history of the universe ends and it disappears, the spiritual world and the God exist. And at the moment of end of the material universe, a man must be able to materially see the God if he sill lives at the moment.
Whatever exists must come to cease to exist in the long future in this world, in the spiritual world, etc. Even Satan will cease to exist likewise. However, if the space where existence, material or spiritual, is possible has come to cease to exist, the God must be present somewhere.
All we can hope is that Christ Jesus is the Son of the God, since we can share the fact or reality of existence of ourselves and Himself in the history in this material world with Christ Jesus. We do not have to be afraid that actually nothing exists, including ourselves, this world, the spiritual world, etc., since the Son of the God existed in the history in this material world.
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Matthew 9 King James Version
11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.