On Truth and Falsity

                         Jesus is the Truth continued

Since Jesus is the Truth, He does not fail to tell the truth, no matter how ugly that truth may be. The Truth consists of an Infinite set of Ideas in the Infinite Mind of God. This means Jesus is the Logos; that is, the living Word of God. John 1:1-2 (KJB). Jesus gave humans a limited intelligence and five senses by which humans can directly experience God's physical creation. God gave humans a limited mind that humans can use to abstract ideas from sense experience and hold other ideas that cannot be so experienced such as the idea of nothing and the idea of infinity. Because human knowledge and intelligence is limited, humans possess a vast area of the unknown in their consciousness. But God has given humans the ability to search for the truth within the unknown. In their search for the truth about human relationship with God, God has given humanity all they need to know from a study of His written Word. In their search for the truth about human relationship with God's creations, God has given humanity philosophy, science, and mathematics.

All of this means that all of the sense objects and thought objects that God has given to the human mind must be true and real because they all happen to be useful for the creation of beneficial systems, and they all can be used in the human search for truth. But humans can also invent false and destructive systems. Even so, when humans closely examine all false and destructive systems, they will always find that they all comprise misused true and real sense objects and/or thought objects. Even when humans speculate about any unknown truths that lies within the unknown, they always use systems comprised of true and useful sense objects and/or thought objects. Humans live in reality and cannot avoid it. Humans also invent languages that denote sense objects and thought objects so that they can easily communicate with each other about the systems they invent.

Whenever humans discover that a particular system is false, they usually discard it from reality as being useless. It is useful to know when a system is useless. Yet, humans often use false and destructive systems against each other. That is sin and evil. But since all systems always comprise true and real sense objects and/or thought objects, how can humans recognize the falsity in a false system since it seems to be an immaterial substance that attaches itself to false systems? God has given humans the real and useful idea of nothing that humans can use to indicate the falsity in a false system. False systems always prove to be useless and mean nothing. Humans also possess a huge number of speculative systems that have not yet been discovered to be true or false. But whenever humans discover that a particular, speculative system is false by their use of the idea of nothing, they usually discard it from reality as being useless. The idea of nothing indirectly indicates unreality, but humans never directly experience unreality. But humans can also cause other humans to believe that a false system is true and useful so that they can gain power over them. This is also sin and evil.

Since humans must use the real idea of nothing to indirectly indicate the presence of falsity which seems to be immaterial, then humans can only directly know reality. Humans never directly experience unreality. Humans can only directly experience that which is true and real. But what about nonsense words that mean nothing? They have a meaning. They mean nothing. Humans can never know that which means something unless they know that which means nothing. It is quite useful to human knowledge to know the difference between that which really means something and that which really means nothing.

Mathematics provides an example of the fact that humans know only that which is true and real and that they never directly experience that which is not real. Take for example a miscalculation in arithmetic; that is, 3+2=6. Every number and sign in this miscalculation happens to be true and real because they all are useful. Yet, the system is false. The system is known to be false because it is useless. It is known to be useless because it does nothing and means nothing. The real idea of nothing can be experienced, but the falsity of this system cannot be directly experienced. The true calculation of this false system is that it equals zero. The sign for zero in mathematics means nothing. God has given the real idea of nothing to humans so that they can recognize when a particular system is false and useless. Humans never directly experience unreality. Yet, many humans persist in using false systems because they can produce excessive pride and excessive pleasure, which in the end results in destruction. This is also sin and evil.

But Jesus, in His suffering on the cross, in the descent of His Spirit into Hell, and in His resurrection, He purged all sin and evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from all of His creations so that He can recreate it all to be wholly righteous. Genesis 2:7; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20-21; Genesis 8:20-21; Psalm 36:6; Psalm 75:3; Psalm 107:9-21; Psalm 16:9-11; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:6; John 5:24; John 5:28-29; John 6:33; John 6:52-57; John 11:25-26; John 12:47-48; John 12:31-32; Acts 2:25-31; Romans 8:18-23; I Corinthians 13:8; I Corinthians 15:20-26; Philippians 2:9-11; Colossians 1:15-23; I Timothy 4:10; Revelation 1:17-18; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).