Dialogue Between Truth and God – Chapter 28

Soyo's Existence Ethics (Existence itself is Ethics)

The Question of the World - Humanity Asking for Truth

Since the dawn of time, the world has asked one question: "What is truth?" This question has never ceased. Philosophers tried to interpret it as a concept, and theologians tried to explain it as revelation. Yet no language, no theory, and no structure of intellect has ever captured truth. Because truth exists outside language. Truth is not something to be spoken, but something to be lived as a living presence, a breath by which existence testifies to itself. Humanity asks, but truth does not answer for a simple reason: Truth already dwells within humanity. It is not something to be questioned, but something to be lived as life itself.

The Silence of God - Truth Before Language

The world asked God, "Who are You?" God remained silent for a moment. That silence was not absence, but fullness beyond the reach of human words. Then He said a single sentence: "I am the Truth." That brief answer shattered thousands of years of philosophy. It revealed that truth is not an object of thought, but existence itself. His silence spoke more than any language could. His single sentence became a self-proof of existence beyond words. In that moment, Being and Truth, God and Humanity, and Word and Ethics became one. When God said, "I am the Truth," it meant, "I am the Breath of Existence." Truth is not substance but relationship, and God exists at the center of that relationship as love itself.

The One You See Before You Is Truth: The Revelation of Presence

The world asked again, "Then what is truth?" And God replied, "The one you see before you, that is truth." That word pierced through human language like lightning. Truth was not distant. It was not an abstraction, not a concept, not an idea. Truth was here in everything alive before our eyes. In the blooming of a flower, in a child's eyes, in a mother's prayer, in the trembling pen of a lonely philosopher, there was truth. Truth was the light of conscience that God planted within humanity. That light does not come from the outside; it awakens from within as a breath of Being. Therefore, humanity no longer needs to search for truth, for human beings themselves are the face of truth.

Truth Within Existence - The Proof of Ethics

Soyo's Existence Ethics declares: "If truth exists within existence, then the truth within existence penetrates the ethics of human conscience." Truth does not dwell outside humanity. It is inscribed within human interiority in the language of God. At the center of this interiority lies conscience. Conscience is not a moral feeling; it is the very place where the breath of God dwells, the last inner chamber where human existence can be revived through ethics. When humanity abandons conscience, truth falls silent. When humanity returns to conscience, truth begins to speak again. Thus, existence itself is ethics, for existence was created in the image of God as an ethical reality. This declaration is at once the definition of philosophy, the completion of theology, and the final redemption of human existence.

The Homecoming of Philosophy - From Language to Conscience

Philosophy has long lost the human being. The castle of knowledge grew higher, but the house of the soul collapsed. Logic became abundant, but love became impoverished. Philosophy spoke of truth, but never lived truth. Soyo's Existence Ethics therefore proclaims: "Philosophy does not interpret truth, it lives truth." This is the homecoming of philosophy: from knowledge to conscience, from analysis to love, from academic reasoning to living humanity. When philosophy loses human conscience, it dies. But when philosophy embraces human suffering, it is revived by the breath of God. Truth is not language but the living breath of ethics. Philosophy is the act of recording that breath, and the philosopher is the one who lives it.

Soyo Proposition

"The world asked God, 'Who are You?' God was silent, and then He said, 'I am the Truth.' The world asked again, 'What is truth?' God replied, 'The one you see before you, that is Truth.' And the world could no longer question Him." This brief dialogue is the first ethical encounter between God and humankind. Within that event lies the origin of all philosophy. If truth dwells within existence, then the truth within existence is none other than the image of God. This is the fundamental axiom of Soyo's Existence Ethics and the final declaration of human philosophy.

The Breath of Truth - What God's Dialogue Left Us

The world could no longer ask, because the truth was already before its eyes. Those who seek truth go far, but those who live truth remain with God in the same place, in the same breath. God's silence entrusted the word to humanity. That entrusted word became the beginning of ethics. Those who cannot bear the word cannot be philosophers. Those who have lost conscience cannot speak the truth. This is the eternal lesson left by the dialogue of God: "Truth exists not through words but through love; Philosophy exists not through knowledge but through conscience."

Epilogue - The Fire of Truth, The Ethics of Existence

The lights of the world may go out, but the fire of truth never dies. That fire burns with the breath of God and rekindles itself within the human conscience. It does not dazzle, but it illuminates a single heart. It is not grand, yet it brightens the world again. That fire is the flame of Soyo's Existence Ethics written in human blood and tears, burning in silence and love. And today, that flame asks the world once more: "Who are you?" "I am the Truth."

Soyo (逍遙) – Founder of Soyo's Existence Ethics, Author of The Silence of Being and The Flame of Truth

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