On Truth and Falsity

                               How Reality Works

Certain truths which become known through intuition to be true, have to be true simply because they cannot be false. These are called a priori truths. The skeptics would argue that a priori truths cannot be true unless they are tested to infinity. "The shortest distance between two points is a straight line" happens to be a system considered to be an a priori truth. But the skeptics would contend that in order to prove that this system is true, one would have to gather an infinite number of examples of this system and compare them to know for certain that this system is true.

But if this infinite test has already been made because all a priori truths reside in an Infinite Mind, then one can be certain that this system can only be an a priori truth. Psalm 147:5 (KJB). Even so, God would never inform humans that a priori truths must be real because He has put them to an infinite test. If God did that, He would also have to prove that an Infinite Mind exists. God does not desire to prove His existence because to do so would mean He would have to abrogate the free will He has given to humans. Humans would be compelled to believe in Him, and that fact would leave the value of His great Love unproven. In this fallen world, God desires that every human freely choose to believe in Him and love Him because that happens to be the only way that God's great Love can be proven to be true and real for every human. Only freely chosen love can be real love. Only through the freely chosen love of all humans for God can He overpower and purge all evil from His creations. John 12:47; II Peter 3:9-13. God proved His infinite Love for humanity when He sacrificed Himself to save all of humanity, but that proof can only become real for humanity when all humans come to a time when they freely choose to believe in His great Love and sacrifice for them. God cannot purge all evil from His creation until that happens. John 12:31-32; Luke 3:6 (KJB).

God created humans to possess consciousness, self-consciousness, intelligence, a conscience, free will, and goodness. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). Humans can be conscious of their stream of consciousness which constitutes all of their sense objects and thought objects. This is also self-consciousness. Humans also possess intelligence which means they can manipulate their sense objects and thought objects to create useful systems that benefit themselves and the rest of humanity. This desire and ability to create good systems constitutes the goodness that God puts into every human He creates. But because of their fallen nature, humans can also use these same sense objects and thought objects to invent false systems of "excessive pleasure" and "excessive pride" called sin and evil which prove to be harmful to themselves and others. But God also gave humans a conscience that tells them that those false systems are harmful and wrong, especially when a person deliberately commits a cruel and evil act. "Pleasure" is a perfectly good sense object, and "pride" is a perfectly good thought object when used in creative systems, but they can be misused. Sin and evil happen to be a misuse of God's good sense objects and thought objects for the invention of false systems. Humans also possess free will by means of which they can freely choose to create good and useful systems or sinful and evil systems. But God has proven that His infinite Love for humanity can only be real when He sacrificed Himself to save humanity from the eternal, negative effects of sin and evil. God desires that all humans freely choose to return to faith in His infinite Love that can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). For these reasons, God knows exactly how to cause every human to freely choose to reject all sin and evil and return to faith in His great Love which will forever prove that His infinite Love can never fail. Only then will God be able to purge all sin and evil from His entire creation and recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

How then does God inform humans that all of their sense objects and thought objects can only be true and real? Since God cannot inform humans that He has put them all to an infinite test, then He must inform them through intuitive knowledge of a priori truths. God lets humans know that a priori truths must be true and real simply because it is impossible that they can be false. All mathematical knowledge and all formal logic fits into this category. But for the sake of free will, God also allowed humans to have some doubt as to whether or not all other sense objects and thought objects could be true and real. This fact allowed the skeptics to form their doubtful systems of philosophy. But humans should realize that all of the basic, irreducible elements of their consciousness must be true and real simply because they cannot be false. The basic and irreducible idea of a "circle" constitutes the complete spectrum of all sizes of circles. The basic and irreducible idea of "hard" constitutes the full spectrum of all sense objects that possess some hardness. The basic and irreducible idea of "justice" constitutes the full spectrum of all systems that claim to be just and fair. The same can only be true of all the basic, irreducible ideas that God has given to human knowledge. When human consciousness blends all of the complete spectrums of all the basic and irreducible ideas together, that constitutes the true and real nature of reality.