Language always reflects a subliminal, psychological recognition of the truth of reality. What do we always say about that which is not real? We say that it is nothing. Unicorns, mermaids and ghosts, for those who do not believe these entities are real; we always equate them with nothing. We always equate unreality and nonexistence with nothingness. On the other hand, we never equate the contents of unreal systems with nothing. We never say that a "fish" or a "female" is not real but that a "mermaid" is not real. We equate the false combination of "fish" and "female" with nonexistence and unreality. This constitutes a universal rule for all false systems. In our subconscious use of language, we always equate unreality with nothingness. This is a universal truth of reality.
Furthermore, we always equate uselessness with nothing. Humans create and invent a great number of systems of all kinds involving every area of our lives. We constantly create new laws, new machines, new experiments, new ways of doing things, and when some of these systems do not work, or at least do not produce the desired result, we say that they do nothing. We always equate the ineffective results of any false system with nothingness. We never say that any of the contents of any ineffective system equate with nothing, but only the failed results of such systems. For example, a machine may break down and produce nothing because of a broken part. But we never say that "broken" or the "part" is not real, but that the machine as a whole produces "nothing" because of a "broken part."We always equate the uselessness produced by an ineffective system with nothingness, and never any part of the system, broken or not. One of the uses of the idea of nothing in language is that we can use it to indicate unreality. Again, subliminally, language reveals a universal truth.
We always treat the contents of any system we invent or create as being useful and real. The exception to this rule occurs when we use the nonexistent product of a false theory as if it were real. For example, if we were to relate the false system: "Aether is a substance in space," we would ignore the fact that "aether" has been found to be the nonexistent product of a false theory. As such, "aether" equals nothing and unreality. There was a time when "aether" was thought to be real, but even then, "aether" was never a useful substance. One may say: "The Higgs boson is real," but this would only reflect that person's belief that it is real. The establishment of its reality requires systematic experimentation. For these reasons, one of man's greatest projects consists in constantly inventing new systems for the purpose of revealing a greater reality or unreality.
Going further, humans often use the idea of nothing as a tool to exclude ideas or systems of ideas from any system that we are in the process of inventing, creating or using. By temporarily equating real ideas or systems with nothing, we indicate their uselessness and exclusion from whatever system we are currently inventing or using. For example, if we were using a system of instruction to tell someone how to do something, we may say as a part of our instruction: "Do this but do not do that." We would be equating the real "that" with nothingness because it would not be useful in our system. We would not be equating the ideas that form the contents of the "that" with unreality, but we would simply be temporarily considering them to be equal to nothing as far as the usefulness of our system of instruction is concerned. In other words, in order for our system of instruction to be useful, we must use the idea of nothing to exclude other real ideas or systems which may prove useful in other circumstances. This process constitutes a universal rule which man uses continuously every day. Again, language reveals that nothingness can be considered as being unreal when it is used to exclude real ideas or systems from inclusion in other systems. Language reveals the subliminal truth that only the idea of nothing, and equivalent terms such as uselessness, indicates unreality, and never the real ideas or systems themselves.
One may conclude from all this that since the idea of nothing and uselessness, and all equivalent terms, always indicate unreality, then these terms themselves must be unreal, but such is not the case. The idea of nothing and uselessness are themselves useful and real ideas in that they indicate the unreality contained within ineffective systems that must be discarded from future use. When mankind discovered that the system called: "The earth is flat", was a false and useless system, we usefully discarded it. The true and useful system: "The earth is round," replaced the false one. Nevertheless, each individual idea in both systems are true and real. It is only the false combination of real terms in the useless system that means nothing and thus indicates unreality.
Even the system called: "not real" is useful in that it indicates the nonexistence of unreality. If the idea of "nothing" and "reality" are both useful and real ideas, and the system "not real" is an effective system, then where is the unreality that this system indicates? The only possible answer is that it nonexists nowhere and at no time. Unreality must (not) be an absolute nothingness or chaos that lies behind reality. Unreality is like voids in reality similar to black holes in space.
If all this is true, then all appearances and ideas both within and coming into the mind must be true and real in their basic forms. Only false combinations that produce useless results, and false theories that produce ideas equal to nothing, indicate unreality. Some basic ideas are useful in themselves, such as the color "red." Others only reveal their complete usefulness when combined with other real ideas in useful systems. The basic idea "hatred" may not be useful in itself, but when combined with another real system called "evil," one gets the useful system called: "hatred of evil."
Because of man's limited intelligence, we view reality as being full of holes or voids that indicate unreality. These voids affect reality because in our ignorance we invent false systems and theories that indicate, in a sense, where unreality lies behind reality. We find it useful to discover the uselessness of false systems because such unreality can thus be discarded from inclusion in future systems. In other words, one of the great projects of mankind is that we constantly engage in the process of learning new realities and discarding unrealities.
This means that the unknown lies within the realm of unreality. We constantly invent true and false systems, the useful and useless effects of which open up the unknown so that we can effectively separate new reality from unreality. This means that a kind of potential reality must lie within the nonexistent realm of unreality. But this potential reality remains wholly swallowed up by the chaos of unreality so that no real difference between potential reality and unreality can exist. In other words, within the unknown, potential existence equals nonexistence.
For all these reasons, reality can only be established by an application of consciousness to the unknown. Consciousness is the only known engine in the universe that possesses the requisite power that can separate reality from unreality. Both appearances and ideas are always real to consciousness. Ideas are real only to intelligent consciousness. Appearances are real to both intelligent and unintelligent consciousness. A worm possesses an extremely limited view of reality. Mankind possesses a greatly expanded view of reality, but still limited because of the unknown.
All of this put together means that if evolution is a true theory then the whole universe had to have lain within the category of the unknown before the emergence of an intelligent consciousness having the power to separate reality from unreality. But this unknown universe could only be an absolute nothingness that nonexists nowhere and at no time. Any potential reality would continuously equal unreality with no power to separate the two. Like within a black hole, not even light could be separated from darkness.
Therefore, before the existence of man's consciousness, an Infinite Intelligent Consciousness must forever exist who possesses an infinite knowledge of an infinite reality which He created. An Infinite Reality must exist because if it does not, then in time, unreality will eventually swallow up limited reality so that our universe will eventually vanish into nonexistence. Such is the position of the atheists and nihilists.
However, God has given faith to those who believe in the sacrifice of His Son Jesus. Through faith in the Deity of Christ and in His sacrifice, death, burial and resurrection, believers have gained victory over a false system within them called "sin," that will eventually destroy them. Their sins have been washed away by the blood of Christ, and forever, by God's grace, they will participate in that greatest of all true systems: God's Infinite Reality.
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