God Must Come for Philosophy to Be Complete: The Ontology of Waiting -Chapter 74

Soyo Existence Ethics (Existence itself is Ethics)

Human beings strive to run toward God. They instinctively seek to transcend themselves, and that desire for transcendence becomes a longing for God. Yet such longing is always perilous. For in the very moment humanity tries to 'reach' God, He withdraws from within them. For ages, humanity has desired to see God to touch, feel, experience, and explain Him. But God cannot be interpreted through human language. He is the Being who comes near, not the being whom humans can reach.

Soyo Existence Ethics declares:

"Faith is not that I go to God, but that God must come to humanity."

This single sentence rewrites theology, philosophy, and human existence itself.

Faith Is Not Attainment but Waiting

Philosophy asks, "Where is God?" Yet God is not the object of proof; He is the object of waiting. God does not come through human effort. Instead, He enters into the endurance of humanity. The deeper the waiting, the more humans recognize their limits, and within those limits, they sense the traces of God.

Soyo Existence Ethics regards this waiting as an ethical act of existence. Waiting is not passivity but the continuation of love, the long breath of conscience toward God. "To live and endure in waiting is itself the study that loves wisdom philosophy." Philosophy is not reason proving God, but the art of enduring the silence of God.

The Absence of Scripture Is the Providence of God

Theologians often ask, "Why does the original manuscript of the Bible not exist?" But that absence is not God's flaw; it is His perfect will. God did not want humanity to worship the 'written truth.' He came as the Word but did not remain as text. Truth is not completed in a record but in the living conscience of those who embody it. Thus, the absence of Scripture is not the absence of truth but the space prepared for God's coming. That space is faith, and that faith is the existential ground of human being.

Free Will Is the Ability to Wait for God

Humans are free, yet this freedom is not the freedom of choice. Soyo Existence Ethics proclaims: "Free will is the ability to wait for God." Humanity believes it can move toward God, but true freedom must include the ethical capacity to allow His coming.

Truth is not believing when belief is easy, but living when belief seems impossible.

That living is the completion of freedom. Humanity, before the silence of God, becomes the being who calls upon Him through conscience.

Wisdom Is Knowing the Heart of God

If philosophy loves wisdom, then wisdom must resemble the heart of God. Wisdom is not calculation but gentleness, not knowledge but the tears of love. Wisdom that carries the heart of God awakens human conscience. Conscience can neither see nor touch God, yet it testifies to Him through living. That living is ethics, and that ethics is the pulse of life carried by God's blood.

Human Existence – The Philosophy of Waiting

Whenever humans attempt to reach God on their own, they collide with the wall of pride. But when God comes to humanity, that wall disappears and life flows. This waiting is never passive; it is active obedience, philosophical endurance, and theological love. Waiting is being alive. Humanity proves God's existence even in His absence, not through language but through the ethics of suffering.

God Must Come for Humanity to Become Philosophy

Without God's coming, humanity cannot become philosophical. For philosophy, in the end, is the language of humanity waiting for God. Humans built ladders to climb toward God, but God broke those ladders and descended into human tears. Within that blood, suffering, waiting, and love, humanity finally becomes philosophy. The coming of God is the completion of philosophy, and the completion of philosophy is to live out divine love.

"God must come for philosophy to be complete." This is human existence, being, and ethics.

Soyo Maxim 1

"Faith is not that I go to God, but that God must come to humanity. This difference is what formed the foundation of materialistic religion. There is no original manuscript of Scripture. Why? Because that, too, is the providence of God who must come to humanity. If truth lies within what cannot be believed, then humanity must choose that direction. This is the essence of human free will, and the reason conscience can neither see nor touch. Simply living with endurance and waiting itself is philosophy, and such wisdom must be the wisdom that carries the heart of God."

Soyo Maxim 2

"The journey of human life lasts only a hundred years. Humanity must feel fear before the patience of God, who waits through these hundred years. How many human beings, in a century of life, can truly open the door of the heart? This is not humanity going to God, but the faithfulness of God who waits for humanity to open their hearts. We must live this divine waiting with trembling and awe. For He is God and knows why He granted free will within humanity. This relationship is absolute and precise: He is God, and we are human."

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

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