Christianity and the Structure of Being– Conclusion: Christianity Was Never Meant to End in Dualism

The Return to What Has Always Been True

Throughout this series, we’ve traced a path—one not of rejection, but of return. Not a return to doctrine as it has been taught, nor to metaphysics as it has been inherited, but to the truth Christianity has always carried within itself: that what-is cannot not be. That nothing is lost. That Being is eternal, and that the world is not passing away, but appearing within the fullness of that eternity.

We began by recognizing the intuitions at the heart of Christianity:

• That love is eternal.
• That the body will be raised.
• That death is not the end.
• That glory is not elsewhere, but among us.

These were never myths. They were glimpses—flashes—of a metaphysical truth too vast for the language of the time.

Then we saw how Platonism entered, offering Christianity a vocabulary of transcendence but at the cost of dualism. The eternal and the temporal were split. The body and the soul, heaven and earth, Being and becoming—each torn apart and reconfigured under the threat of non-being. Thus began the quiet reign of annihilation as a metaphysical backdrop.

Through Augustine and Aquinas, through doctrine and ritual, this framework deepened. And yet—Christianity never surrendered. Its mystics still spoke of presence. Its sacraments still affirmed the body. Its resurrection doctrine remained a protest against disappearance. Even Paul could not silence the intuition that eternity is already here, not only promised.

What we have uncovered is not a revision of Christianity, but its fulfillment. A letting-go of the contradiction it inherited, so its deepest message can finally appear: that every being is eternal, and that what Christianity seeks through faith is what Being already affirms through necessity.

No one is lost. No thing disappears. No suffering is wasted. No body is thrown away.

The structure of Being does not oppose Christianity—it is what Christianity has been pointing toward from the beginning. When the last dualism falls—the illusion that what-is can become nothing—then Christianity is no longer suspended between time and eternity. It is re-grounded in the very necessity of the eternal.

This is not a new religion. It is the ancient one, finally seen for what it always was.