On Truth and Falsity

                    On the True Nature of Reality

God created each person as an individual with separate responses to their environment. People have different responses to what they smell, taste, see, hear, touch, and think. God created every person to be an individual system, and therefore, each person uses his individual experiences in different ways. Experiences differ from one person to another. Nevertheless, every person who speaks any language can turn their experiences into words and communicate with each other and understand each other. One person may like the taste of apples, and another may not, but they can still talk with each other about taste and apples. One person may become very distraught about a particular event that happened while another may consider that event to be not so important. But they can talk together about that event and understand each other although they disagree.

The skeptics claim that they suspend judgment as to whether or not reality exists. But when they argue that because people have different experiences through their senses, no one can tell what is real, they really judge that reality does not exist at all. The skeptics seem to believe that if reality existed, it would be the same for every person, but if that were true then every person would have to be a clone of every other person, and creativity and progress and even intelligence itself would be impossible. The skeptics ignore the fact that every human is a different system with different creative ideas because they have different responses to their experiences. This condition means that humans can still communicate with each other, invent better systems, plan for the future, and just create better conditions and better societies with and for each other. That is reality.

God created some people with great creative talents who happen to be very good at creating useful systems, and God created others with just the talents needed to take good care of their families, and some who seem to have no talents at all. But every person happens to be necessary for the establishment of reality. Persons with great talents quickly advance the progress of humanity. Those who can just take care of their families, by extension, take care of the whole human race. Persons who seem to have no talents at all exist so that those who do have talents can invent better systems to help them. Reality creates incentives for everyone.

Reality becomes established when humans use their true and real experiences to formulate true and useful systems that benefit others. When humans discover that a particular controversial system happens to be false, they can use the idea of nothing to judge that false system as being useless and that should be usefully discarded. If no one can truly tell the difference between truth and falsity, then reality would be impossible since no one could be creative because no one would be able to tell the difference between reality and unreality. Although unreality never appears to humans, humans can get an indirect idea of it by their use of the idea of nothing that indirectly indicates its presence in false systems. Since unreality never appears to humans, then all that does appear to humans must be real.

Even so, humans have the ability to use real sense objects and thought objects to formulate false systems that are useless and even hateful and destructive. Falsity always adheres to false systems themselves, never to the true and real experiences that compose them. Because of the evil within every human heart, every human has in their lives at some time taken a part in those false systems. Some people will cling to false systems, such as drugs and alcohol abuse, until they destroy themselves. Because of stubbornness and excessive pride, many humans will adamantly adhere to false systems of religion and politics that have proven to be harmful to humans even though they should be usefully discarded. Religion can sometimes improve the lives of people to a certain extent, but all religions actually prevent humans from ever getting to know God as their personal friend and Savior who gives them victory over all false systems. In true Christianity, humans can get to know the Lord Jesus Christ, who is God, as their personal friend and Savior who will greatly improve their lives and provide them with a much stronger ability to avoid false systems such as sin and evil. Evil causes the breakdown of reality. God will eventually restore and recreate His entire creation that has been damaged by evil. John 3:16; Galatians 5:16-26; II Peter 3:9-13.