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“The Human Condition” is: This intractable, predictable, insoluble, and unresolved contradiction plaguing our lives from birth to old age, from the diaper to the coffin!

There are many ways in which to approach “resolving” this perplexing, vexatious, paradoxical confounding “Reality” in a comprehensively, holistically, healthy manner! But God has “made a way” not only for us to “negotiate,” or “navigate” through all the travails and tribulations we might encounter during our temporal earthly existence, but to also overcome all obstacles that we share with each other and our natural environment, such as our sinfulness and mortality. (John 16:32–33).

Jesus is “the way, the truth and the life.” And no one comes to God but through Him! (John 14:6–7).

Every person who tries to accommodate his or her rationalizations as to “why do something” or “why to not do something,” must eventually reckon with their conscience, an innate capacity for “cognitive dissonance” that might result in our choosing to do what is right in the sight of God and beneficent to one another!

But, however “situational” they might be, rationalizations only circumvent God’s commandments of righteous living, so that we can “feel comfortable” in “staying where we are.” Otherwise called “situational ethics,” this approach to problem-solving relies on the illogical fallacy that “there are no absolutes” or that “everything is relative.” “Moral relativism” or “value neutrality” is an indefensible self-delusion that has cost us, and is still costing us a lot of grief, pain, trouble, tribulation, injury, and many times, even death! But we breathe Oxygen to stay alive, not Carbon Monoxide! We quench our thirst naturally with sweet Water, and not Sulfuric Acid!

The flesh can resist spiritual transformation, a change of heart, or a change in worldview. But, given that our biology requires fulfillment of not only physiological needs but also emotional and social needs having connectedness with the ways in which we “associate” with “the world in which we live:” “Stasis,” or “unchanging,” “static processing,” or “staying put,” can churn for years on end, as people repeat the same patterns of thinking and the same patterns of behavior, yielding, for example, fatal drug addictions, or other forms of deadly behavioral choices.

The lure of pursuing material wealth due to pride, arrogance, fame, power, or vanity, is attached to the “patterns of thinking” and “modes of conduct” that sustain and feed those world-affirming cravings: “the lust the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.” (1 John 2:15–17).

“This soul-condition” or “inner-spiritual dynamic” might engender a desire for satisfaction of wants rather than fulfillment of real needs, of wishes rather than actual hopes, and of inaccurate projections into the future rather than reliance upon God’s will for our lives. (Proverbs 11:28; 12:17; 14:12; 29–30; 15:8–10; 19:21; Romans 8:1–11; 12:1–2).

The constellation of conditions, situations, circumstances, parameters, variables, processes, or events that we encounter during our temporary lives on the Planet, appears to be so incomprehensible and inexplicable only due to our sinful Human Nature, the depths of complexity embedded within our “socio-spiritual environment,” which we call “society;” and the unfolding of “Entropy” within our biology and physical earthly environment. From either side, Human Nature and Ecological Nature, we are assailed by uncertainties that might generate anxieties and stress in our hearts and minds. But the peace of God ruling in our hearts through Christ Jesus restores certainty and security to our thought processes, situational responses, and emotions. (Colossians 3:12–17).

“Cognitive dissonance” or incompatibility between “”what is” and “what ought to be,” may contrive “a sense of dislocation” or “of dissociation,” between our inner-selves and the repertoire of behaviors, or the tapestry of events, unfolding before our eyes and unraveling in our lives to which we refer as “the external world.”

As “spirit-beings,” we’re “only passing through” mortal existence in the material-physical Universe, during which, we have to face, to reckon with, to transact or to “deal with:” “Self, Others, and material-physical Nature!”

Each approach, perspective, worldview, or paradigm, that we attempt to “forge” to help us, guide us, direct us, or instruct us, as we endeavor to “configure” this grave sobering “Reality” apart from God’s divinely ordained prescriptions for living, will eventually fail!

Human Beings contrive many “philosophical schemes” in attempts to resolve these perennial contradictions in our lives. All such “philosophical cages” end-up as “mental prisons” for their purveyors and followers whereby doctrines “revolve in a circle” without ever arriving at irrefutable or “definitive conclusions,” or “box people” into stereotypes that foster prejudice, mistreatment, injustice, and cruelty.

How do we “reckon with” or “relate to” these “domains of uncertainty:” One another’s Sinfulness; biological mortality; and environmental Entropy?

Resolving this conundrum, this vexing paradox, is difficult, in the short run, and persistently perplexing in the long run, because of their “intermingling alliances,” or “entangling combinations.” These “disheartening domains” may engender mental responses and emotional adaptations that are deleterious to peace of mind and a restful spirit.

Life and Liberty are gifts, blessings, or endowments from our Creator! Many are the choices we must make. Even more numerous are all the attempts of Human Beings at answering the greater questions that often plague our very “state of being,” or “just plainly being Human!”

Where did life come from? Why is there evil in this world? Is there “an after-life” following biological death? Is there a connection between our lives on Earth and our eternal destiny in the Universe? How can we have certainty in our quest to understand these perennial paradoxes?

We are; we exist; we are real! Yet, those ultimate answers that are not yet made manifest, appear to remain beyond our capacities to grasp or acquire with complete understanding, or fulfilling comprehension! We are “in-the-know,” and yet, uncertainties might cause us to have anxieties leading to stress. The only answer is: Jesus!

“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” (John 1:4–5)

God had created the bright shining light of the Stars as revealed in the Book of Genesis. What is physical is physical. What is spiritual is spiritual.

As the Apostle John teaches us through God’s Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus, there is another “form of light” that is as real and true as “natural star-light.”

To be “in darkness” is to be “living in sin” for which no repentance is forthcoming in the pursuit of forgiveness for newness of life. Our sinfulness contributes to the limited capacities or characteristic-capabilities of our discerning faculties.

Darkness, spiritually speaking, not only “symbolizes” the reality or presence of sinfulness and evil, amongst us and within us; but, materially darkness also “signifies” night-time darkness, or “the absence of star-light.”

Cain, who murdered his brother Abel, was “in darkness;” not only had he “a sinful nature,” but he succumbed to temptation; he “externalized” its imperturbable and impenetrable intrinsic dysfunctions when he killed his own brother “in cold blood.” Before the coming of Christ, Humanity was permanently chained to the bondage of un-forgiven sins. Thus, Cain gave birth to “forms of behavior” that confirmed and affirmed his “need for salvation.” Cain’s murder of his brother also occurred before the Law, or preceding the times when God had given the Ten Commandments to Humankind through Moses.

Thus, in biblical history, from Cain to Malachi, the last Prophet under the Old Covenant preceding the birth of Christ, that is, until John the Baptist “entered the scene” by the will of God: Such was the “state of Humankind” before the coming of Christ.

Sin, inherited, not only biologically but also spiritually from Adam and Eve, was passed onto their children; which was, “the seed of rebellion” against God’s sovereign authority, in imitation of Satan whom God had to cast out of Heaven for the same reasons.

As Satan sinned, in the form of a Serpent, Cain sinned, thus reflecting “the sin of rebellion” against God for which Satan was cast out of heaven by God.

In Genesis 3:15 is established the “God-ordained relationship” between “the Son of Man” and “Lucifer,” “the false light,” — “Cain’s spiritual father” before “the Law” was established by God through Moses.

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy SEED and her SEED. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise HIS heel.” (Genesis 3:15).

“The seed of Satan,” that is, his spirit of evil for machinations of wickedness in people who do wrong, demonstrates that those wrongdoers are acting in his “image and likeness,” rather than in God’s own “image and likeness.”

Satan exploits the sinfulness of Human Beings, which he was accountable for, in the first place, in order to “carry out” on the Earth, “the plan” that he could not bring to fruition in Heaven while he was an angel or “cherub” in service to God. That is, Satan attempted, but failed, in usurping the sovereign authority of God in the heavenly realm; but apparently, partly succeeded “in supplanting it” on Earth, in the lives of Human Beings, even before “the Law.” And after “the Law,” preceding the birth of Christ as well. Many times, too many to mention, God had to “discipline” the “children of Israel” for their continual rebellion against His sovereign authority, the “spirit of rebellion,” “the Seed of wickedness” as propagated by Satan’s hate-filled wickedness.

But God always “kept a Remnant” of faithful Israelites in order to fulfill His plan of Salvation for Humanity.

First, as a “Serpent” in Eden, Satan had deceived Adam and Eve to cause them to commit the “sin of disobedience.”

But, when Christ came on the earth as “the Son of Man,” while being also “the Son of the living God,” Satan altered his approach or changed his plan. He “saw and opportunity and took it.”

Then, Satan, figuring he’d “kill two birds with one stone,” conspired to “tempt Jesus” who had sojourned in the Desert without food and water for 40 days. For Jesus was both Son of Man and Son of God. Jesus rebuked him and he went away, waiting for a “more opportune time.” (Matthew 4:1–11).

Meanwhile, Satan continued to exploit the sinfulness of Humankind, as allowed by the manifestation of God’s will in sinners’ lives. Human Beings on the Earth, were Satan’s “winning ticket” to materialize his lust for power as he continuously attempts to alter or change what would otherwise could not take place “in the heavenly realm.” He failed in dethroning the Majesty of God’s Omnipotence and was cast out Heaven, for once and for all.

But, Jesus had been preparing Himself for “such a time as this.” Jesus, the Son of Man, was not only “fulfilling all righteousness” on Earth by submitting to being baptized by John the Baptist; but He was also commended and approved as “the Son of God” in whom “God is well pleased,” stated by God, during two separate occasions. (Matthew 3:17 and 17:5; John 1:32).

Jesus had already been baptized by the Prophet John the Baptist, on the one hand, and on the other hand, God had already confirmed the mission of Christ on the Earth when He said, “And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straight way out of the water; and lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him. And lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:16–17; Matthew 17:5).

But, still, Satan could not help being “utterly inane.” He had to try! He cannot create anything original himself, for he, himself, was an angel, “a cherub,” created by Almighty God. Satan is indeed the author of evil and the contriver of wickedness.

God’s plan was a mystery, hidden, not only from Satan, but also unknown to the people whom he would use against the righteous.

And thus, as the infallible Word of God tells us in the Holy Bible:

“But we speak of the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory, Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.” (1 Corinthians 2:7–8).

A Human Person cannot simply “self-create!” And the inanimate Universe cannot simply “spew-out” the Human Mind from nothing; nor can it impart a spirit to a “living soul” which Human Beings own.

In addition, biologically speaking, there is the first Law of Bio-Genesis: That it takes “the living cells” of others, of both the Human male and the Human female, of both a Man and a Woman, as “parents,” to begin our existence,” to begin Human life at “fertilization,” to which we refer as: “Conception!”

Were Humans to have started as “little babies” in the jungles and forests of Earth natural environment, who would have cared for them, feed and clothed them, protect them from wild animals and the elements? No adult Humans would have existed then! Thus, fails again, the theory of evolution, in providing “a godless alternative narrative” to account for the “creation” of the Universe and of Humankind in it.

The Universe was “not too bright” or “not too smart” in “creating” its own nemesis — Evolutionists believe that so-called “climate change” and “global warming” are destroying the Planet and Humans are responsible and accountable for that feat of self-destruction.

But Jesus, Son of Man and Son of God, conceived by the Holy Spirit, approved of God and to be worshipped by Human Beings as “a miracle worker” and Savior of Humanity, not only annulled and cancelled this “covenant with death,” but also ensured us “Continuum living” by giving us access to both “life abundant” and eternal life. (Isaiah 28:14–19).

For, Jesus, “the Emmanuel of God,” means “God is with us!” (1 Corinthians 13:9–13; Revelation 22:3–5). Jesus is “the light of the world” (John 9:4–7) that casts out all anxieties sprouting from “darkness,” “doubt,” “blindness,” and “fear;” for perfect love casts out fear. (John 9:35–41; 1 John 4:16–21).

“Then Joseph, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.” (Matthew 1:19–20).

That was to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah, the Prophet. (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23).

Jesus was both perfect Son of God and the “Seed of Woman,” or, the Son of Man. In fulfillment of the Scriptures, Mary had descended from Adam and Eve, “mother of all the living,” and ultimately, from the Tribe of Judah; along with Joseph, the husband of Mary, also son of Jacob his father; and of course, Jesus, who was also from the Tribe of Judah.

But Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit; for Mary was a virgin. (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23–25).

So, we did not exist before we were conceived in our mothers’ wombs, before we were born! Where were we, then?

What constellations of events and activities “configured” in order to arrive at our present stage; to arrive in our times?

During which epoch, or age of Human living, — like “the state of the Union,” so to speak, — or “State of Human Society” do we enter into existence?

At what point in “the state of Human Living” — “in the annals of Human History;” — do we receive “the gift of life?”

In which historical times, in “the History of Humans,” do we encounter life, or come into being from conception to birth?

We are born into a world, during a certain period of Human History, “state of which,” we know absolutely nothing!

Secular historians have divided the history of Humankind into different “ages,” but apart from God’s immanence and omniscience, e.g., “the stone age;” “the bronze age,” etc. . .

However, as little babies in diapers, our capacities have not yet developed to their full potentialities! Thus, we are not cognizant of our earthly condition during our time of birth.

But, historically, we, were born “in the Christian era!” For we are in the Year of our Lord; anno domini, Two Thousand and Eighteen!

Our “Reality,” or “the Universe in which we live,” and earthly conditions around us, began thus:

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

But, because we are spirit-beings created unto “the image and likeness of God,” our beginnings also include the presence of God:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (Genesis 1:26; John 1:1).

In short, when the Holy Bible said, “Elohim,” or “God” said, “Let there be light; and there was light. And the Lord God saw that the Light was good,” (Genesis 1:3–4), Jesus, His Son, was also present; so was the Holy Spirit. For at the same time, — God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, — that GOD, was creating “star-light” or “sun-light,” Jesus was already “the light of the world,” — that is, since before the foundation of the world:

“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” (John 1:4–5).

God is Spirit. We have a spirit, a soul, and, a albeit mortal, biological body. Materially, and also, spiritually, God had already separated the Light from the Darkness; (Genesis 1:4), that is, God had separated Himself, from Satan, and from the material Creation He had brought into being.

Satan is “the prince of this world,” whom God had cast out of Heaven; and God had also separated Himself from “the rulers of this world.” (2 Corinthians 2:7–8; James 1:16–18; 4:4–8; 1 John 1:5–10).

Thus, in the same manner, God had already separated those who are His in Christ Jesus, His Seed, from the wicked people who practice evil, “the Seed of Satan.” (Genesis 3:15; Matthew 25:46; Romans 8:28–30; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; Revelation 22:14–15.)

But, says the Unbeliever: We will no longer “biologically exist” after we die! Our living existence thereby ends and our lives terminate on the Earth, in a state of “terminal Entropy” or “final Entropy,” which we call, death!

But, still, asks the Doubter: “Where are we going?” Our “inner-being” or “inner-self” — our Soul, our Spirit, our Mind, our Heart; the “Person” within our bodies, our “decision-making free-will Self,” our “Personhood,” our “inner-Person,.”. . .etc. . .?.

These abstract spiritual-moral “character traits of Personhood,” are surely different, separate, and independent from our physical-biological bodies! The body can be “paralyzed,” yet “the Mind lives!” A good example, “in our times,” was Physicist Stephen Hawking! What happens to the “inner-Person” who says: “I am?”

“Where did we come from?” and “Where are we going?” make up the “conundrum” which “Human Nature” must always “deal with,” even as we “wrestle” with “the Human Condition.”

We, as little babies needing diapers and regular feeding from adults who gave us birth, our parents, know nothing of the world in which we find ourselves at birth. Yet, God, our Creator, foreknew us, even before we were born!

“For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.” (Psalms 139:13).

“I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well; my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth. Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” (Psalms 139:15–16; Jeremiah 1:4–8; Galatians 1:15–17.)

We have “a lifespan.” Laws of Thermodynamics,” “Energy processing,” or “Energy Transformation,” demand that every thing that operates in Nature, must also have a beginning and an end. Thermodynamics thus requires “cycling of reiterative events” or of “patterns of processing,” falling within the frame of “the Organizing Principle.”

In short, there has to be “a method to the operations,” or “modus operandi” for each phenomenon that impacts our life-support systems on the Earth.

And in durations of Time, we measure these “rates of change” or “cyclical changes” thereof, e.g., We’re born; we mature and age; and then we grow old and die. Yet, we must continue to live! God blessed us with life as an indescribable gift! A blessed endowment which we are commanded to cherish and nourish in the love and admonition of the Lord! Once we accept the brevity of our existence, as a prized blessing from our Creator, we can then “navigate through” or “negotiate” the different cycles of repetitive events that characterize our life-span!

Don’t we continuously inhale and exhale the Atmosphere into our Lungs that then extract Oxygen there-from to nourish our blood that’s circulating throughout our body’s organs? In the same manner, we have “sleep and wake cycles;” “labor and rest cycles;” “consumption and waste-disposal cycles.”

Thus, some people might conclude that “Life is its own justification;” and hence, the reason why, that suicide and murder, are not only unthinkable, but also not committable or performable. We will die ultimately anyway; so why accelerate the process!

But as “the physical” has its own destination (Genesis 3:19); so does “the spiritual” (Luke 12:4–5). What is physical is physical; what is spiritual is spiritual (1 Corinthians 15:42–50).

Nonetheless, we choose to hope “to die only of natural causes.” (Psalms 79:11; Ecclesiastes 3:2).

Some people might want to debate or open for discussion, if we choose to do so, “where we were,” that is, before conception and birth. However, because we’re already here, we have a life, we think and do, we ponder and act, we have a life-span, then, “where we’re going” also matters.

But “Where are we going?” matters, in a way that, “Where did we come from?” cannot be framed.

For we did not know then, but, now, we do know! — that is, we didn’t know “when we came into being;” or, “when we were formed” in our mother’s wombs, nor when we were “created into a living being;” nor when we were born, or came out, of our mothers’ wombs!

For, we did not know then; we could not have known then! But NOW, we do know that we’re alive, moving, breathing, thinking, and doing! We do know! And that “makes all the difference” in the whole world, in the whole Universe! (Matthew 13:40–43; Matthew 15:17–20; Luke 6:45; John 15:22–25).

Thus, in the same manner that we are unaware of our biological-physical birth conditions, yet, the Word of God tells us: “In him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:22–31).

Why are they different situations, “different paradoxes,” or “different conundrums?” Our ignorance at birth; and our understanding at death?

We could not self-consciously witness our own conception or birth, nor when we came out of our mothers’ wombs. But, now, things are different. We are living now while fully knowing that our lives are temporary and will eventually end!

Because “we are in-the-know,” because we are self-aware, (e.g., self-consciousness of good and evil, and the difference between them), and because we are aware of other Humans, — thus, we are also aware of other things, of society, of our physical environment; and of the very thoughts and ideas such knowledge and understanding generate in our hearts and minds, souls and spirits.

We are also self-conscious of such things as, the very “flawed patterns of operations” undergoing in our minds and our bodies — what we think, how our body’s organs are working, and what we freely choose to do!

Even those of us who would claim “not to believe in the after-life,” will entertain some form of doubting at one time or another; because the ways in which we apprehend, perceive, or understand “Reality” — or how we reckon with “Reality” (1 Corinthians 13:11–13) — through our “perceptual lenses” that often err because they rely on appearance: Our ways-and-means of apprehending Reality, limited and mortal, are also independent of the existence of that “Reality;” or disconnected from “the realness of the thing in itself” — “Der Ding an sich” (Immanuel Kant). These limited and mortal ways-and-means of apprehending “Reality,” are insufficient for dismissing “Reality” as “a non-existent illusion.”

But if we utilize a microscope, we might then discover the more precise ways in which things that appear, are well-ordered, according to “the Organizing Principle” that God has “embedded” within the operations of His Creation, e.g., Through “X-ray crystallography,” biologists Creek and Watson were able to put together the “discovery” that our DNA has a double-helix structure.

In the same vein, as we socially relate to one another, God entreats us to “judge righteously” and not “according to appearance.” (1 Samuel 16:6–7; John 7:14–24).

We have “inner-self internal consciousness” (we know that we exist; we know that we are); as well as “outer-other-self-consciousness” (we know that we are aware, that others are, or that others also exist.)

And we also possess “outer-external other-consciousness” (we know that others are aware that they also exist).

In short, (1) We know that we exist; (2) We know that we know that we exist; (3) We know that others exist; (4) And we know that we know that others do exist; (5) And we know that we know that others also know that we do exist and that they also exist!

That means, whether or not there is indeed “an after-life,” its existence is independent of “our belief systems.” God does not seek His own interest; for He is self-sufficient! But we are not! We are “created beings:” We have a beginning, a life-span, and an end! We exist “from the diaper,” until comes, our time “for the coffin.”

And given that we can know, and do know, that we can neither verify its existence, nor confirm its non-existence: Then, we have to take God’s Word seriously concerning this matter! No one can die and return to life to tell us whether “the after-life” exists or not!

Our “belief systems,” e.g., “Existentialism;” or “thought systems,” e.g., “Marxian Dialectics,” “Epiphenomenalism,” etc. . .., are irrelevant to the true authentic existence of that “after-life Reality.” We will be “long gone” before the discussion ends. (Matthew 18:7 Luke 11:28; John 9:39–41).

The group of believers called “Existentialists,” will answer those questions by saying that: No mortal Human Being can prove that there is no “after-life!” That’s called “a double negative” or that “we cannot disprove there is no after-life.”

But, before we were conceived and born, we did not exist; and after we die, we will no longer exist. We’re conceived to be born, to live, and then to die! “Point final!” And that’s that! Period! Though these supposed assurances will be uttered by “Scientists,” — or people who believe that only the material-physical Universe which we can “handle with our biological senses” is real, — but such pretenses of certainty without valid reproducible proof are, “not scientific.” For, a principle of the Scientific Method is that experimental results must be reproducible for verification by independent, disinterested, and unbiased researchers.

Jesus Christ rose from the dead and ascended unto Heaven, after which He empowered us with the knowledge of His Holy Spirit, to ensure and seal the Reality of our “spiritual existence” in the “world to come” (the “New heaven and new earth”); or in the “after-life” (going to Heaven or ending-up in Hell!) (Isaiah 65:17; 66:1; 22; Matthew 25:40–46; Mark 13:1–2; Luke 17:37; 1 Corinthians 15:42–58).

However, the same “Existentialist” who rejects God’s existence; who denies the existence of our spirit and soul; who dismisses the Reality of our “inner-self” as being independent of our biology; and who objects to “the Realness” of the abstract Mind we possess that allows us to think and form ideas: He or she, that so-called “Existentialist,” will still cling to “the abstract rules, regulations, laws, or statutes” that govern, instruct, or inform our knowledge of the sanctity of his or her inalienable right “to possess or own property;” he or she will demand respect for his or her Human dignity, —abstract non-physical spiritual concepts — when confronted with every or any attempt at violating his or her “Human rights” or “civil rights;” he or she will expect, desire, or demand “justice be done” in cases before a court of law, so that the decision is either in his or her favor, or against his or her disadvantage.

How do we “reconcile” such baffling contradictions! These contradictions are, to say the least, “mind-boggling.” Hence, this perplexing, vexatious, and confounding paradox: “Human nature” engaged in “navigating” through, or “negotiating,” our “Human condition!”

Existentialists will use an abstraction that he or she does not believe in, e.g., a mental spiritual construct called “a Law,” so as to justify or rationalize his or her “right” to possessing or owning property, which is a concrete physical thing.

But did not God say, “Let there be light and then there was light!” Then, is it not the Spirit who brings things into existence? (Isaiah 48:12–13; Romans 4:16–18; 1 Corinthians 1:28–31; Hebrews 11:1–3).