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What is the difference, if any, between the metaphysical presuppositions of Christian faith in God and its metaphysical implications?

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Christian faith in God necessarily presupposes the existential question about the meaning of ultimate reality for us, and therewith the threefold reality of self, others, and the whole. Being a certain answer to the existential question, however, Christian faith in God necesarily necessarily implies a particular understanding of this threefold reality.

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To meet this difficulty, it would seem necessary to distinguish not only between presuppositions and implications, but also between purely formal presuppositions and material ones---both ones—both of these being distinguishable from what are properly called "assumptions," even as implications can and should be distinguished from "consequences."

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