Theorists are internalists

When people talk about the future they often refer to it as something that exists in reality, as if it has substance, shape, form and meaning. But the future has no existence other than what we imagine it to be in our minds.
During a period in European history generously named as ‘The Age of Enlightenment” philosophers were always mouthing off about the meaning of life using abstract words like 'beauty', ‘nature’ and 'future' to give gravity and purpose to their arguments. Such arguments had all the appearance of using empirical evidence, of refusing to accept anything as true unless it could be observed to be true, but their use of references to many abstract ideas betrayed their writings as, at best, wish fulfillment, the root of wobbly theory. Their writings have been given canonical status in universities to ensure the world is taught from the perspective of an imagined authority or ‘rule of measurement’ based on a rag bag of scruffy ideas, wild speculations and wobbly theories. In a world that has no specific canon other than relativism in which the mysterious spectacle of an utopian future devoid of black and white, right and wrong, good and evil, is repeatedly referred to as concrete reality, the future could not be more grim. The legacy of their writings form the basis of today’s teaching establishments training children to believe in half-baked truths about a new world order controlled by people who believe they have emanated from chimpanzees.
In order to prove the existence of your future you will need to give it substance, shape, form and meaning by predicting what or where you imagine yourself to be tomorrow. Whatever you come up with will consist of nothing but ideas and you will not have a single shred of evidence to prove these ideas exist as substance in reality. Imagination that relies on abstract things to support an argument has no grounds at all for contending with those whose arguments about the existence of God is grounded in the reality of historical evidence.
If the history of civilisations is anything to go by, the historical evidence for canons being wrong about the future is overwhelmingly stacked against those numerous societies whose collectivised imagination of the future never materialised. Their dusty remains tell us about missions unaccomplished big time. They built their towers, which all fell through moral decay from within. One exception to this is the history of Israel whose future was prophesied by those who believed. God proved himself to be true by telling them about their future, which often happened exactly as he forewarned. He even prepared them for the coming of Jesus Christ centuries beforehand. The historical evidence for God keeping his promise about the future is undeniably more certain and reliable than any number of ideas or theories put together by star-gazing philosophers.
God reveals himself to the world and he does this by telling us about the future so that when it arrives, hopefully, we would recognise his reality, turn from our unbelief and trust his somewhat greater oversight of our time.
Jesus is the only one person in history who claimed to be the sum total of the future and who came back to tell us about it. He suffered for the evidence of eternity knowing that the proof would cause men to defend their cherished beliefs in their own strength, which they thought they did rather well by killing him. When ignorance and fear take over, human reason descends to the depths of brutality as it did in the Dark Ages and the Age of Enlightenment when messengers of Jesus’ gospel got burnt at the stake and their entrails yanked out by barbarous priests of death. He proved himself to be the Truth by 'letting things' happen to him the way he had predicted so that we would recognise him coming to us. God did this to teach us about himself so that we can see the flesh and blood of his substance, shape, form and meaning which is expressed as love for us. Unlike the dubious future, which the whole world continually and mistakenly believes in as a reality, God has substance, shape, form and meaning. He is the future. God is the ultimate absolute reality who has told us everything we need to know about our future and he came as a Son to reveal everything so that we would be left in no doubt.
So, why the contention? Do you contend with the ideas you have about your future by trying desperately to prove to others that the way you have imagined your future has no basis in reality? Do you? Of course not, even though you should, because its true. You're whole life is based on making preparations for the future that you've imagined for yourself and it would therefore be inconceivable to question the reality of 'imagined things' that form the substance and meaning of your life! Yet you contend with God who has made himself known beyond all doubt that he exists in reality. The contention is this: You think you are in control of the environment in which you have been given a wee experience of life and therefore the idea of a higher authority is repugnant to you. This is the way human psychology works and it all sounds perfectly reasonable, except for the glaring stark reality of the condition in which you find yourself. The reality is that people imagine the future and then build social structures by colonising other people into these structures and then build armies to fight each other with arrows and spears, in order to preserve and bring into existence what they have imagined collectively. Kings, laws, mullahs, ceremonies, flags, bishops, graves, shrines, statues and monuments are all expressions of this imagination about possessing the future. Futile phrases like, 'planning for a better future' daub the literature of our collectivised community of academic dreamers and fantasists. Yet you cannot prove that a single hair on your head will be there tomorrow where it is today. When the future does eventually arrive and it turns out to be different from what you imagined, you are disappointed because you realise you have built your life on the quicksand of your Government’s imagination where there is no reality but lies and half baked truths.
I'm telling you that your life is worth more than your mind could ever imagine, more than all the philosophers can imagine with all their skilful use of words and paradigms. The number of stars in the dimension we lamely call ‘space’ cannot contain what constitutes your life. Your life is worth the suffering of God's own flesh and blood who came to us to bridge the gap between imagination and truth. Today, you have no excuse when it comes to choosing whether to live or die. If you choose to believe in your imagination you will die in your imagination. Choose to believe in Jesus Christ and you will die to your imagination but be raised with him whose words will be used to raise you from the dead. His words are not subject to men's imagination, neither men's imagination that came before his resurrection nor that which has been added since because his words are Spirit and Life - the eternal place not governed by the imagination of men. What God promises as a future for you therefore is what God keeps stored for those who believe in Christ. He cannot show you these things until you repent, not a stitch will be shown until you turn from your own way and follow Christ. The only 'thing' you will see is an imagined picture of yourself in the future based on nothing but fantasy.
For God came to us as a man to show us the way, the truth, the LIFE and if you prefer to put your trust in your imagination about life, death and the 'future world' then please don't be angry when at the end of time he says to you, 'But I came to you and you rejected Me'

"In that day (the day He was to come back to show them the resurrection) you will no longer ask me (about) anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask, and you will receive, and your joy will be complete." John 16 v23-24

These words, and all the others that Jesus spoke, are the only words that are going to remain when everything else on earth and in heaven has passed away. The words you eat today will be the words that will resurrect you tomorrow. Don't be cheated by the fools who have talked themselves out of an eternal inheritance.