Note: New readers should start reading from Categorizing Reality onwards before reading this post.
Life.
Life is not as we know it.
We know life from the perspective of created beings that aren't really alive. Our life and our death are both things that are created.
We are only alive through the attributes of God's Knowledge, Power, and Will, but unlike God we aren't really alive. We have no Life of our own.
True Life is an attribute that cannot be taken away and cannot be given. True Life is an attribute that only God has, because God's existence is Necessary and that means it is Necessary that God is alive not dead.
As such, Life is neither given nor taken it is eternal. It has always been and will always be, whoever has Absolute Life has always lived and shall always live.
There are those Divine attributes that connect to us by which we live, and there are Divine attributes that do not connect to us. God's strength is connected to us, it is what creates us. God's life however is not connected to anything in creation, it's an attribute that doesn't connect and affect creation.
We are alive, we exist rather, through God's Strength and Will power, not by His Life.
Our life is not connected to God's life the same way our will is connected to God's Will. Our life is connected to God's Knowledge, Power and Will but not His 'Life.
So yes, we are alive, but not in the true absolute meaning of the word the way God is. We're merely being created every moment from "something that is possible that does not exist"to "something that is possible that does exist." What we know of life is merely God bringing into existence something that is Possible yet doesn't exist into something that is Possible that does exist. That's all we are. Nothing more, nothing less.
If God decides not to take us into existence we become nonexistent, not dead because we were never alive in the first place. Our life and death are created states both contingent upon God's Knowledge, Power, and Will.
Life is the 5th essential attribute of God.
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