Essence

When people first started thinking—at least, thinking about something other than fire and outrunning Tyrannosaurus Rex—they started at the very beginning.

They thought about why they were alive.

Socrates

The first guys to write about their reasonings were the Greeks: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

Next, they thought about God. It stumped them. They realized—at least Plato did—that the Greek pantheon of gods could not be the highest gods. There had to be a supreme Something.

Reason required it.

A bit later the reasoning of the Greeks encountered the God of the Bible. When the two intersected, the thinking of theology and reason merged and magic happened.

The magic is called, essence: I am. I exist. I possess being. I am present.

God stated His name as, “I AM.”

His name is a noun, i.e. “I AM” names a person.

“I AM” is also a verb—a verb of being—an action word, a doing word.

God is present. He’s active. In everything you are, and everything comprising you, and everything affecting you, God is. He is engaged. He has essence.

He is not distant. He cannot be. I AM tolerates no separation.