On Truth and Falsity

                Systems of Speculation and Opinion

When God created humans, He gave them a limited consciousness and intelligence. That means humans know very little. But God also created humans in His image which means He created humans to be good and loving people. Genesis 1:27. When humans fell into sin, the Devil added spiritual death to the beings of every human which causes them to sin, to do evil, and to disbelieve in God. Genesis 2:17. Humans inevitably sin because of the power of temptation that comes from the evil that happens to be a part of their natures. But some humans allow their evil natures to dominate their good natures, and those humans often become very cruel and even murderous. And there are some humans who become even worse than that. Some humans do not practice cruelty and evil, but they write philosophies that attempt to cause humans to despair that God is good, that He does not exist, and that humans are on their own in their attempts to live together in peace and harmony. But these types of humans also know that when they teach that life is meaningless, or that humans have to create their own meaning to life that always happens to be merely a material meaning, they know that that message will cause a feeling of emptiness in human life and an inability for humans to ever find a way to live together in peace and harmony. These types of philosophers have allied themselves with the Devil in his attempt to utterly destroy God's best creation, the human race. These types include the skeptics, and such dogmatists as Nietzche, Marx, Darwin, and Freud.

But the good nature that God puts into every human can never be utterly destroyed because God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8. The goodness that God has created humans to be causes humanity to search for the truth which has to be spiritual as well as material. In areas of that search where humans can never attain spiritual truth because it is just to great for them to understand, God has supplied His Word to teach the absolute spiritual Truth to humans even though they will never be able to understand most of it. Romans 11:33. But God has not only revealed Himself in His written Word, He has revealed Himself in His material creations as well. Psalm 19:1-6; Romans 1:18-23. Because of the goodness that God has put into the hearts of all humans, humans have never given up on their search for the truth. In the early history of humanity, when God had revealed His written Word to the Israelites only, the good nature in humans raised up dogmatic philosophers who invented systems of speculation and opinion in their search for the truth. They got a lot of wrong ideas, but they should be commended for that because they were trying so hard.

Some of the dogmatic philosophers actually came to the conclusion, in their own way, that God had to exist. Aristotle concluded that there has to be a first mover that itself cannot be moved. That can only be the power of God. Plato speculated that perfect Ideas must exist on which all imperfect objects and ideas have been based. Perfect Ideas can only exist if there is also a Perfect Mind.

The history of the human race has demonstrated that humanity has progressed from barbarism to civilization. Humans have invented laws which govern societies which, if they are obeyed, cause humans to live in peace and harmony with each other. Most of these societies were ruled by cruel tyrants who themselves obeyed no laws, but humanity progressed anyway. The science of medicine has greatly advanced and so has the science of education. Humanity has even advanced to the establishment of free societies ruled by laws which restrain humans from hurting each other but which also allows each individual human the freedom to express themselves and to use their imaginations to invent many different true systems which benefit their fellow humans. This freedom allows humans to invent very good systems such as better houses, education for every child, automobiles, air conditioners, and many others. God made all of this progress possible because of the good nature that He created humans to be.

But the evil philosophers have not given up either. They still try to convince humans that they need tyrants who will completely control them, even their minds and the way they think. These evil philosophers actually desire to stop human progress altogether, reduce humans to despair, and contribute to the Devil's attempt to utterly destroy God's good natures that He has put into every human. Many people have fallen for their false philosophical systems, but because of stubbornness and excessive pride, they still cling to them when they should realize that they are useless and harmful and should be usefully discarded.

Even modern science has arrived at the conclusion, for those scientists willing to admit it, that the extremely fine tuning of the universe that allows life to exist, and because of certain discoveries made in quantum mechanics, that an Intelligent Consciousness has to exist.

But all of human progress that human have the ability to cause always starts with systems of speculation, opinion, and theory. Humans seek to fill the unknown with certain knowledge. But in those areas of spiritual truth to high for humans to reach, God has supplied them with His absolute, revealed Truth which is the Living Word of God. John 14:6.