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Independent media that won't reinforce tribalism. We have one Planet; nobody's leaving, so let’s reason together!! Darrell McClain is a Military veteran with an abnormal interest in politics, economics, religion, philosophy, science, and literature. He's a Doctor of Philosophy in Human Services, and the author of Faith and the Ballot: A Christian's Guide to Voting, Unity, and Witness in Divided Times. Darrell is a certified Counselor. He focuses primarily on relationships, grief, addiction, and PTSD. He was born and raised in Jacksonville, FL, and went to Edward H white High School, where he wrestled under Coach Jermy Smith and The Late Brian Gilbert. He was a team wrestling captain, District champion, and an NHSCA All-American in freestyle Wrestling. He received a wrestling scholarship from Waldorf University in Forest City, Iowa. After a short period, he decided he no longer wanted to cut weight, effectively ending his college wrestling journey. Darrell McClain is an Ordained Pastor under the Universal Life Church and remains in good standing, as well as a Minister with American Marriage Ministries. He's a Believer in The Doctrines of Grace, Also Known as Calvinism. He joined the United States Navy in 2008 and was A Master at Arms (military police officer). He was awarded several medals while on active duty, including an Expeditionary Combat Medal, a Global War on Terror Medal, a National Defense Medal, a Korean Defense Medal, and multiple Navy Achievement Medals. While in the Navy, he also served as the assistant wrestling coach at Robert E. Lee High School. He's a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under 6th-degree black belt Gustavo Machado. Darrell Trains At Gustavo Machado Norfolk under the 4th-degree black belt and Former Marine Professor Mark Sausser. He studied psychology at American Military University and criminal justice at ECPI University.

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The Most Basic Fact And What It Changes

June 07, 2026 • Darrell McClain • Season 1 • Episode 511

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“God is.” If that sentence lands like a shrug, we think something is off, because it is the most basic fact beneath every other fact. We lean into the shock of it and ask what changes when you stop treating God like one more idea inside the universe and start treating Him as the foundation that holds everything up.

We walk through the claim of God’s absolute being, what theologians often call God’s self-existence or aseity. That means God never began, never ends, and never came into existence the way everything else did. It also means God is absolute reality, with nothing “before” Him and nothing that exists unless He wills it. Before space, before the universe, before anything we can point to, there was only God, and that reframes how we think about origin, meaning, and what “real” even means.

Then we turn the lens on us. If God alone is primary, everything else is secondary and dependent, including the entire universe. We talk about the startling implication that creation is upheld moment by moment by God’s decision to keep it in being, and what that does to our pride, our fear, and our sense of control. We also explore why God is not becoming anything, why He cannot improve, and why that steadiness matters. To close, we reflect on God as the standard of truth, goodness, and beauty, not someone who consults an outside rulebook.

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Opening And Big Claim

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Everything changes.

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One of the billions of facts of all the billions and billions of facts that there are this fact, God is, is the most basic and the most ultimate. All other facts rest here. All of their facts go there. There is nothing underneath the fact God is holding it up. Nothing above the fact God is

God Is The Ultimate Fact

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to it all is tending. This is the most basic, most ultimate fact that is. God is we are blown away by the truth that God is. And if you aren't, you're asleep. It is a staggering thought and reality. God absolutely is.

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This is explosively uncontainable. This is wildly untamable. This is electrically future creating. And so what I want to do now is to tell you ten things that it means. God's absolute being means he never had a beginning. Number two, God's absolute being means God will never end or go out of being. If he did not come into being, he cannot go out of being because he is being free. God's absolute being means God

Ten Meanings Of Absolute Being

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is absolute reality. There is no reality before God. Unless God wills it and makes it. He is simply there, and he is absolutely there. He is all that was eternally. There was no space. There was no universe. There was no emptiness. There was only God. And that's all that ever was eternally. He depends on nothing to bring him into being or to support him, to counsel him, or to make him what he is. That is

Before Anything Else There Was God

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what the word absolute being that I'm using means. God's absolute being means rather that everything that is not God depends totally on God. All that is not God is secondary. Dependent. The entire universe, let it be said clearly and matter-of-factly, the entire universe is secondary. And God alone is primary.

A Dependent Universe Held Up

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The universe came into being by God, stays in being moment by moment on God's decision to keep it in being.

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It is utterly, totally fragile and dependent and secondary.

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God holds it in existence every millisecond of his being. He is not becoming anything. He is who he is. There is no development in God. There is no progress in God. Absolute perfection cannot be improved. Number eight, God's absolute being means that he is the absolute standard of truth and goodness and beauty.