For some great philosophers of our planet, the world that we can see is just an illusion. It’s a world that is untrue and perishable. The Bible even says that the things which you can see are temporary and the things which are unseen are eternal. These great philosophers and of course the Bible is right. Spirits are the truth and physical matters are illusion. The money you are counting, the car you are dreaming to have, the jewelries you are safely keeping and the face and body you always beautifies are all illusions. These things are bounded by time and space and therefore will perish. But some people define existence with the maxim “to see is to believe.” For them, what they see is what exists. This concept is so vulnerable and breakable. Love cannot be seen, but it exists. Minds are also unseen, and if they argue that only things which are seen only exits, they are defining the humans as mindless creatures. We have minds, we have emotions and we have thoughts, these things are unseen but they indeed exist and we have them.
If only unseen things are real things, then how about humans? Are we real? We truly see humans. But we can’t see all of human structures. We only see the human physical structures but not their spiritual structures. When God created Heaven and Earth, He created two kinds of things. These things are things which He made out of physical matter and things He created out of Him. God is a pure spirit. He purely exists and He is purely true. Aside from angels, only humans were created by God through Him. But God also created humans partly out of physical matter. So that humans can fully take good care the physical and natural world and ultimately learn to leave materiality and ascend to spirituality. Spirits are the truth as I said earlier. The spiritual world is the true world. This is the world which is not bounded by the law of chemistry and physics. Humans are composed of matter and spirits and therefore we are composed of real and unreal things. We are both living in a material world and a spiritual world. But we must prioritized and focused on spiritual living because this s the real things and this is the eternity.
We truly exist because we have spirits. All things on Earth which are not spirits don’t really exist. Human spirits can choose to love or choose to hate. This I because of “free will” which is the unique attribute of a spirit. If a thing has s free will or the ability to choose what is right or wrong, then it is a spirit. Even the ability to think does not distinguish a physical matter against a spirit. Today, a computer had already the ability to think. It already had logic and can perform an analysis. But still, it doesn’t have the ability to choose what it wants to choose. It doesn’t have a “free will” and does not have the ability to choose between right and wrong. It only does what it was programmed to do. It only decides what it was programmed to decide after some results of analysis. A computer cannot choose to answer a “four” or a “number aside from two” on a question of ‘one plus one equals what?”. But a human can even answer “I don’t care about your question” on the same question above.
God created laws on earth for humans. He did not created laws for seas, mountains, rocks, trees and even on animals. The snake stated in Bible is not an animal but an angel called Satan whom disobeyed God’s commandments. Aside from Gods and angels, only humans have the free will on Earth. This is what makes us true and existing. Although our physical bodies are illusions like other physical things on Earth, our spirits are real. We are real. We are spirits. We have the free will, and therefore we exist. “I will therefore I am”.
By: Victorino Q. Abrugar
