Essay

The Eternal Recurrence of the Same: A Meditation on the Biblical Vision of Reality

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In the heart of every moment, in the infinitesimal spaces between seconds, a cosmic rhythm of unimaginable proportions unfolds across the infinite web of relations amongst finite –yet, ever re-forming — beings. It encompasses the entirety of the biblical narrative, from the opening verses of Genesis to the closing chapters of Revelation, yet it is contained within the breath of a single instant. This is the eternal recurrence of the same, the ceaseless repetition of the divine rhythm of creation and destruction, life and death, hope and despair.

At the center of this rhythm is the figure of God, the sovereign Lord of all existence, who is not a static or distant being but a dynamic and intimate presence, pulsating through every fiber of the universe. Hence, God is not a being or an entity, but is Being-itself –the fundamental ontological ground of all existence and essence, without which there would be nothing and outside of which there is but nothing.

In the beginning, we are told, “The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the…