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       Essence Existence
       By: Sergeant Slim Jim Date: August 30, 2020, 6:29 am
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       Hi all. I have an interesting one for you. I recently
       encountered someone who argued that if God exists then He is
       contingent upon existence. In other words, He needs a place to
       occupy, even if that place is existence. Now the way I
       understand it, God's essence is His existence, but I'm having
       some trouble breaking that down further into an argument this
       guy would understand. Does it make sense to say God exists
       within Himself? Is there a better way of saying that? A
       different argument altogether? Thanks.
       For reference, here's the video where the subject was discussed:
  HTML https://youtu.be/Lwno0bST0KM
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       Re: Essence Existence
       By: ClassicalLiberal.Theist Date: August 30, 2020, 7:31 pm
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       God doesn't exist in anything. God just exists. It is a
       fundemtanlly philosophical error to talk about "places" where
       which God exists; he does not exist here nor there or with
       respect to anything else, he just exists. He is existence
       itself.
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       Re: Essence Existence
       By: Sergeant Slim Jim Date: August 31, 2020, 6:48 pm
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       That's more or less what I'm thinking my response would be,
       especially given that God is a being of pure act, His essence is
       His existence, etc.
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       Re: Essence Existence
       By: Not the Dumb Ox Date: September 28, 2020, 5:05 am
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       That’s a three-and-a-half hour video. Could you provide a time
       stamp to the discussion?
       From your description this sounds like a resurrection of the
       being-as-genus debate. Answer: being is not a genus.
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