Dostoevsky was right when he wrote that humans consider consciousness to be a curse. Most people have shallow minds which shows that they do not like to think or learn. Some like to attach their consciousnesses to pleasure by becoming addicted to alcohol, drugs, sex, or other toys. Some like to learn only enough so that they can come to a place where they do not have to learn anymore. Many of these are people who desire an earthy utopia where all people exist on the same level, and they can turn their minds over to their great leaders who will do their thinking for them so that they become relieved of the burden of consciousness. Many humans claim to seek the truth, but they really only seek to confirm that which they already believe.
As the Preacher wrote in Ecclesiastes 1:18, people do not like to use their consciousnesses to learn because they learn much grief and sorrow. They seek rather to attach their minds to pleasure or even vanity. Ecclesiastes 1:2. In educating themselves, people learn that men will readily exploit each other, will even commit horrible crimes against each other in their will to power. Many men learn that consciousness can be used not to gain wisdom but to gain power over others. Those who truly seek wisdom will find these evils within themselves. Ecclesiastes 3:18.
Many seek to find all truth in objective truth, but in their hearts they know that objective truth is severely limited. Even their science has brought them to the knowledge that reality can only be established by consciousness and the information contained therein, but their materialist philosophy compels them to refuse to accept this fact even though it has been repeatedly confirmed by experiments in quantum mechanics. Many of them believe that their philosophy will bring them to utopia on earth where their great leaders who are their gods will relieve them of their burden of consciousness by doing their thinking for them and telling them what to do. In this way, they will also be relieved of the burden of the choices that their consciousnesses condemn them to make.
Some claim that they believe ultimate truth does not exist, but they belie their own claims by the fact that the skeptics believe no truth exists beyond their skepticism, and the nihilists believe no truth exists beyond their nihilism, and the same for the realists and idealists. Every human acquires his own ultimate truth. Even the belief that no ultimate truth can exist becomes an ultimate truth.
Anyone who really thinks about it will come to understand that objective truth will never even come close to answering the ultimate questions of mankind. Who am I? How did I get here? Where did I come from, and where am I going? Since reality can only be established by consciousness and information, then it stands to reason that all ultimate truths can only be found by man's inner consciousness, that which Kierkegaard called man's "inwardness."
God's Word teaches us that man's consciousness has become so limited by sin, that he can never, by his own efforts, find the ultimate truth by the use of his own consciousness. A comparison of John 1:1-5 with Hebrews 11:3 demonstrates that reality came into being by the creative act of an Infinite Consciousness that is One with Infinite Information. Psalm 147:5; John 10:30. Humans can only find the ultimate truth by seeking revelations from God's Word. Psalm 119:105; Matthew 16:13-17. Jesus. the Living Word of God, claimed to be the ultimate Truth. John 14:6. One must make an inward choice as to whether to believe Him or not. One who attempts to ignore His claim simply rejects Him through one's determined ignorance. The Holy Spirit brings the Truth of Jesus' claim to the inwardness of all who hear the gospel that Christ can eliminate the limitations that sin causes, as well as sin itself, and bring one to a knowledge of ultimate Truth and the joy of an ultimate and unending reality. The choice is ours. John 3:16; Ephesians 2:1-9.
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