A Common Sense Criticism of Skepticism

The philosophy of skepticism rests on the idea that no human experience can tell the difference, for certain, between reality and unreality because of flaws in human perception. If a person sees a ghost, then that ghost is probably not real because of misperception, hallucination, or that person just lied. Science has adopted the philosophy of skepticism and has claimed the right to determine for all people what is most probably real and most probably false through a strict discipline of experimentation and observation. Yet, most scientists ignore the daily, common-sense observation that nonconsciousness always produces absolutely nothing, and they have adopted the metaphysical idea that a nonconscious universe can develop all of the physical laws that govern it and can eventually produce the extremely complex system of life. 

But the truth of the matter is that humans never directly experience anything that is not real. Every sense object, idea, feeling, memory, and imagination happens to be real to human consciousness because consciousness makes them real. Consciousness happens to be that very engine of the universe that makes everything that it experiences real. All experiences can only be real because they all happen to be useful to consciousness in some way. 

So, is a ghost real? As experienced, a ghost is real because every element of the experience added together that makes up the ghost is always real. Human, shape, misty, and translucent added together make up the ghost and all of these experiences are real. It is only the false combination of these real elements that causes a ghost to be unreal. So how does one know that a ghost is unreal? One can only know that a ghost is unreal because one judges that the false combination of real elements means nothing. That means that the idea of nothing has to be real to consciousness because it is useful to indicate that which is not real. The idea of nothing is itself real. Every element of human experience either means something, or it means nothing, and that makes both ideas real. So where is the unreality of the ghost? It never directly appears to human consciousness. It is covered by the useful idea of nothing. 

Every false perception that a human can have always comprises real elements. Most scientists would make the judgment that UFOs are not real, when in actuality, a UFO can be just a false combination of metallic, shiny, disk, and flying; all of which are real with its unreality covered by the idea of nothing. A straight straw may appear bent in a glass of water. But the straw, glass, water, and bent are just false combinations of real experiences, and its falsity means nothing to consciousness. Every mistake that a human can make, and every misperception, hallucination, or even just lies, always comprise real elements in a false combination, and the falsity always only indicates the idea of nothing. Unreality itself never directly appears to human consciousness. 

Reality is somewhat similar to mathematics. A person can make a mistake in arithmetic such as 2+3=6, but the 2, the plus, the three, the equal sign, and the six are all real elements of this false combination. When the person realizes that she has made this mistake, she makes the useful judgment that this false combination is useless and means nothing. 

All of human history happens to be established on the real fact that all useful combinations of real elements that has been invented or discovered have been retained as being beneficial to humanity, but all combinations that have been proven to be false have been usefully discarded because they mean nothing. In a sense, all false combinations are real because they all can be usefully discarded. All of this speculation completely dismisses the falsity of the philosophy of skepticism. In this regard, scientific inquiry can be helpful, but it has no right to claim dominance over the search for truth. 

All of reality rests on the ideas of something and nothing. Unreality covers the unknown and never directly appears to human consciousness. Whatever potential reality lies within the unknown requires human consciousness to extract it from the unknown in order to make it real. 

All of this put together means that consciousness happens to be absolutely necessary for the establishment of reality. In the beginning of the universe, an Infinite and Omniscient Consciousness had to be there to establish the reality of the universe.

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                   Numbers 26:10-11; 61 KJB

When Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, he had to get the Word of God exactly right. Because of his strict obedience to God, God made him the leader of the Israelite nation. But being a fallible human, Moses did disobey the Lord when he struck a rock to obtain water instead of speaking to it as God had commanded. Numbers 20:7-13 (KJB). But Moses' sin did not endanger the exact messages that God required His Word to convey. When false leaders rebelled against Moses, they also rebelled against God. They put the Word of God in danger of never being written or of writing false messages to future generations. God sent His fiery wrath to burn up Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and the 250 rebels who followed them. God meant to protect His Word for the teaching of the Truth to all mankind. But God did not kill the children of the rebels in keeping with His teaching that children should not suffer for the sins of their fathers. 

God opened the earth and swallowed these rebels down to Hell. Numbers 16:30-35 (KJB). But no verse in the Bible teaches that when God sends humans to Hell, they remain there forever. The Devil injects spiritual death into the inner beings of all humans who sin against God with the Devil's desire that it become eternal. But when Christ resurrected from the dead, He made eternal death only temporary for all humans. Genesis 2:17; Hebrews 2:9; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). God gave only temporary punishments to Adam and Eve for their sins because He had already promised them that He would send them, and the whole human race, a Savior who would crush the Devil, and He would gain complete victory over all eternal death. Genesis 3:14-19; Revelation 1:17-18; Hebrews 2:9 (KJB). Taste is only a temporary experience. God made Eve "the mother of all living," and since all humans are alive to God, and Christ has abolished death itself, then God has already devised a plan to save all of His living humans in Hell and on the earth in the end of the world in Christ's final judgment. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; II Timothy 1:10; Hebrews 2:9-18; II Timothy 4:1; Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29 (KJB). God simply cannot lose to eternal death any living human that He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB). Since Christ holds "the keys of Hell and of death," then He can certainly open up Hell and save all of His repentant, living humans from eternal death. Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). 

Apparently, God required that all incense that the priests would burn in worship to Him be composed in accordance with an exact recipe. God killed Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu because they offered "strange fire before the Lord." Numbers 26:61 (KJB). This symbolized the fact that God required the ancient Israelites to worship Him strictly in accordance with His instructions to Moses. God meant to convey an exact message from the Old Testament to all future humans. "Strange fire" meant that the Israelites could have sent a false message from a false cult to the future human race. God had to prevent that possibility. 

In this age of grace, God usually does not kill the leaders of cults because His mercy prevails. God requires His universal Church to preach that all Christians must believe a number of exact truths about Christ in order to become saved by grace. All denominations hold some false beliefs, but all true, Christian churches adhere to the true gospel about the nature and the mission of Christ. Any church that deviates from teaching that exact gospel cannot be a true, Christian church.   

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                         Numbers 21:28 KJB 

God chose the Israelites to be His special people above all of the peoples of the earth because He could dwell with them, and He could give them His Laws. Abraham had a talent for being able to hear God when He spoke to him, and he had a willingness to obey. Genesis 12:1-3 (KJB). God knew that most of Abraham's descendants would also possess that talent which meant His prophets would be able to write the Word of God. God taught Moses that He had created humans in His image, and He had put His goodness into them. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Most of the Hebrews inherited this talent of being able to hear God when He speaks which caused them to be a people who tended to choose to live righteous lives in accordance with the goodness that God had put into them. But the Hebrews would also sometimes disobey God even when they heard Him.  

But most of the other peoples of the world chose to refuse to hear God's Word. They rejected God's authority and chose to go their own prideful and evil ways. They rebelled against God, and they allowed their evil natures, which the Devil had injected into them all, to dominate their lives. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). They chose to believe in gods who were just as evil as they were. When God saw that some of them were no longer able to hear His Word, He gave up on them, and He either directly used His fiery wrath to utterly destroy them, or He commanded the Israelite army to destroy them by burning their cities. God uses the Israelite army to do the same today. Romans 1:18-32 (KJB).

But God has not forgotten the good and creative natures that He has put into every human that He creates in His image. Because of their good and creative natures, many humans have invented good systems that have been of great benefit to the human race. But many other humans have invented cruel and destructive systems because of their evil natures. But humans never create new ideas. Humans always use the good and real ideas that God has given them to invent creative systems, but they also misuse those same good and real ideas when they invent evil systems. God knows that if He allows evil to persist in His creations, then it will eventually utterly destroy the good and living natures of some humans which means God will lose a part of His creation to the Devil and that condition will allow the Devil to eventually be able to murder God Himself. John 8:42-47 (KJB). God knows that evil will persist in the beings of humans forever unless He finds a way to purge it from their beings and use His fiery wrath against evil to purge it from His recreation forever. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). 

God knows that evil never repents, but He also knows that the goodness that He has put into the inner beings of every human He creates is capable of repentance and reconciliation with Him. Matthew 12:31-32 (KJB). The evil inside of every human is also spiritual death which will eventually utterly destroy the good natures of some humans and cause them to be lost from God's Love and protection forever. But God's Love can never fail, and He can never lose anything He has ever created. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

God sent His Son to the world to take the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans on Himself on a cruel cross and suffer it all in the place of all humans so that He could purge it all with His shed blood and water from every human who repents and believes while still alive in the flesh, and He could also rise from the dead victorious over all sins, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil because He turned eternal, spiritual death into only a temporary death. Revelation 1:17-18; II Timothy 1:10; Hebrews 2:9-18 (KJB). All sins and evil are only temporary to God and so is spiritual death. For this reason, God has not forgotten the good and living natures of the rest of humanity who did not become saved by His grace. Because He has abolished death, and because He has gained a complete victory over the Devil, and because He has promised "to make all things new," Christ dismissed His Spirit when He died on the cross to descend into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans not saved by grace. Luke 23:46; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; Revelation 21:5; Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). Christ will visit them in the end of the world, and He will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save and recreate their good natures with new bodies to live forever on His new earth. Only goodness can repent. Evil can never repent. When they all see His great majesty and His tremendous Love for them, they will all repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). 

When God had the Israelite army burn the cities of some of the evil people of their day, that happened to be a prophecy of that which God will do to His entire creation to purge it of all evil and the Devil in the end of the world. Numbers 21:28; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).  

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                 Numbers 18:9-10; 17-18 KJB

The Israelite priests were responsible for conducting the worship services and for making the sacrifices of animals and for all other offerings made to the Lord. They and their sons were allowed to eat a part of those offerings that had been baked or roasted over a fire. But whatever was not eaten had to be completely consumed in a burnt offering. Leviticus 6:8-13 (KJB). Except for the blood, part of the sin offering could be eaten by the priests. The priests had to apply some of the blood of the sacrificed, clean animal to the brazen altar in front of the Tabernacle, and they had to pour out the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar. Some of Jesus' blood adhered to the cross, and the rest poured out on the ground. Leviticus 4:7 (KJB). And once a year, the high priest had to enter the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle and sprinkle the mercy seat on that altar with the blood of a clean animal. Leviticus 16:29-34 (KJB). 

God allows every human who becomes saved by His grace to become indwelt by His Spirit. Psalm 51:11 (KJB). But no one saved by grace can be washed clean inside with the blood of Jesus until after He had shed His blood on the cross, and He had applied His blood to the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies in Heaven. Hebrews 9:11-15 (KJB). For this reason, Christ did not allow Mary Magdalene to touch Him until He had applied His blood to the mercy seat in Heaven. John 20:17 (KJB). God also did not allow any of the Old Testament saints saved by grace to go to Heaven when they died, but He consigned their souls and spirits to a place called Paradise located next to Hell. But after Jesus had applied His blood to the mercy seat in Heaven, He came to them and preached the gospel to them so that He could wash their souls and spirits clean of all sins and evil with His blood and annul their spiritual deaths so that He could give them His own righteousness and take them to Heaven with Him when He ascended. Ephesians 4:7-11; I Peter 3:18-19; Matthew 27:51-53; Luke 16:19-26 (KJB). God did not allow the Israelites to eat the blood of the sacrificed animals, but in the Church Age every believer will be filled with His Spirit who will wash them clean of all sins and evil with the blood of Christ, annul their spiritual deaths, and give them the righteousness of Christ Himself so that they can go directly to Heaven when they die. II Corinthians 5:21; John 5:24; I Corinthians 6:11; I John 1:7; Hebrews 10:4-18 (KJB). 

But an Israelite could also bring a clean animal for a burnt offering that would cause God to forgive his sins but not cleanse him of them. Leviticus 5:7-10 (KJB). The animal would have to be killed and its blood shed before the burnt offering could be made. The Israelite could not eat its blood, and yet, he could be forgiven because of the burnt offering. The priest had to put the ashes of the burnt offering in a clean place. Leviticus 6:10-11; Hebrews 9:22 (KJB). This fact can only mean that God initiated the burnt offering to symbolize that He has provided a lesser form of salvation for all humans who do not become saved by grace. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). God told Noah that the burnt offering symbolized that God will not "smite;" that is, forever kill any future humans. Jesus accomplished salvation by His grace when He shed His blood and water on the cross, but His Spirit accomplished His lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity when He descended into Hell to make the necessary burnt offering. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31; I John 2:2 (KJB). But no human can be saved until they bring a sin offering or a burnt offering to God; that is, they must repent and return to the faith that Christ put into them when He created them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). But God knows exactly how to cause every human to repent and return to faith in Him of their own free will. In the end of the world, Christ will visit all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures instilled into them by the Devil. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 2:17 (KJB). Christ will recover and recreate their good and living natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). God will have removed the curse from the ground. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                     Numbers 16:1-50 KJB

Among any group of people whether they be a nation, a church, or just a club, there will often be persons who desire to gain control, and they will often induce others to follow them so that they can rebel against the present leadership and have them put out of office so that they can gain control over all of the people. God appointed Moses to be the leader of the Israelites, and He appointed Aaron to be their high priest. A man named Korah gathered 250 men to follow him, and he rebelled against Moses and Aaron. Korah accused Moses of appointing himself to be the leader of the people, and two of Korah's followers accused Moses of leading the people out of Egypt only for them to die in the wilderness. They also blamed Moses for not leading them into the promised land when actually it was most of the people's fault that they had not entered it. Numbers 14:1-4 (KJB). Korah and his followers actually desired to gain control over the people so that they could lead them back to slavery in Egypt which they claimed was the land of milk and honey. 

Moses became very angry with these rebels because God had made him angry. Moses proposed that he and Aaron and the 250 rebels should put fire in censers and burn incense before the Tabernacle to see whom God had chosen to be their leaders. Then God appeared and told Moses and Aaron to stand aside while He consumed the whole nation of Israel because they had not backed up Moses and Aaron against these rebels. But God prompted Moses and Aaron to fall on their faces and plead with God for the lives of His people. In this way, God showed the people who really cared about them. 

God then commanded Moses to order the people to separate themselves from the rebels. Moses then prophesied that God would destroy these rebels by opening the earth and swallowing them up into a fiery pit. God then used His fiery wrath against evil to destroy these rebels against Moses and Himself. The earth opened and swallowed these rebels, their families, and everything they owned except the censers that they had used to burn incense in worship of God. 

God told Moses to order Eleazer, Aaron's son, to recover these censers from the fire because they had been used in worship of God even if the worshippers were rebels. God considered these censers to be hallowed, and they were used to make plates to cover the altar that stood before the Tabernacle. Something good came from these rebels which symbolized the fact that even the evilest people always retain some goodness that God put into them when He created them in His image. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Just as Eleazer recovered these hallowed censers, God will recover every good and living nature He has put into every human He has ever created in His image because He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). God will cleanse and recover and recreate everything He has ever created that has been soiled and stained by sin and evil. Revelation 21:5; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 36:6; Romans 11:36 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will visit all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them in His image. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). He will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save and recreate their good and living natures, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). 

The next day the congregation, having been influenced by the rebels, accused Moses of having killed some of God's people. Then the glory of the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle. God then cautioned Moses and Aaron to separate themselves from the people because He intended to consume them all. But God's mercy prompted Moses and Aaron to fall on their faces and pray for the people. Moses instructed Aaron to get a censer and put incense and fire from the altar in it and go among the people to reconcile them with God. God had started a plague among the people that killed 14,700 of them, probably those who had the greatest desire to return to Egypt. 

When Aaron went among the people with the burning incense, he literally "stood between the dead and the living." Numbers 16-48 (KJB). Every human that God creates is alive to Him, but every human also possesses a plague inside of them which is spiritual death. Luke 20:38; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 2:17 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created which means He has devised a plan to cleanse, recover, and save from spiritual death every living human He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God never permanently kills anyone. When Aaron went among the people with burning incense which symbolizes the fiery wrath of God, he made a symbolic prophecy that one day Christ will visit His sinful people "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve and purify them so that He can separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures. Christ will recreate their repentant, living natures with new bodies to live forever on His new earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

II Timothy 4:1 clearly teaches that in Christ's final judgment, He will "judge the quick and the dead." Since all living humans are forever alive to God, then He must separate the living from the dead, and both are inside of every human. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Luke 20:38 (KJB). Revelation 20:11-15 clearly teaches that Christ will cast only the separated dead into the lake of fire, and Revelation 21:5 clearly teaches that Christ will save and recreate every living human He has ever created. 

The Fiery Wrath of God

                                    Numbers 15:23-36 KJB

These verses reveal God's attitude toward sin and evil among His people and any strangers who may dwell among them. God makes a distinction between sins of ignorance and presumptuous sins. Both Hebrews and Gentiles can be saved by God's grace. God has more compassion for sins of ignorance because God knows that the spiritual deaths that the Devil plants into the inner beings of all humans will inevitably cause every human to be overcome by temptation and fall into sin. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The exception to this is children who die before they ever become overpowered by temptation. The Church calls spiritual death original sin, but the Bible calls it spiritual death. John 5:24; Romans 5:12; Genesis 2:17 (KJB). The sin offering with its shed blood of animals symbolized the shed blood of Christ on the cross that cleanses and saves by His grace all humans who repent and believe that Christ can save them from sin, evil, and spiritual death. Matthew 26:28; Genesis 3:21 (KJB). But the burnt offering symbolized that God will use His fiery wrath against evil to provide a lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity when Christ visits all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth" in the end of the world. Genesis 820-21; Revelation 5:11-14; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). Christ will cause all of His living humans to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can recover and recreate their souls and spirits with new bodies to live forever with Him on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:1-5; Romans 11:36 (KJB).  

But verses 30-36 reveal that God takes a quite severe attitude toward presumptuous sins which are also always evil. God never forgives evil because it never repents. A presumptuous sin happens when a person deliberately decides to practice disobedience against God's law. Presumptuous sins are always evil and even if they apply to what one might consider a small sin such as picking up sticks on the Sabbath day. God provided an example of a presumptuous sin with a man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath day. He was not overcome by temptation, and he refused to repent. God commanded Moses to have this man stoned to death. People who practice presumptuous sins do so because they either disbelieve in God, or they have some wrong ideas about the nature of God, or they have just become defiant toward God. 

Salvation always occurs because of repentance and faith in the deepest nature of God revealed in His Son. The Father was a God of justice in the Old Testament, but His Son is the same God of mercy, grace, and Love in the New Testament. God had the man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath day put to death as if he were totally evil. But God did not forget that He created that man with a good and living nature which is capable of repentance and faith. Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). Christ will appear to all of His living humans in the end of the world, including that man, who have not been saved by grace, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to cleanse them of all sins and evil, and He will separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:16-17; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). Christ will recreate their repentant, good and living natures with new bodies to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). All of their sins will be attached to their dead and evil natures, and Christ will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the lake of fire because evil never repents. Matthew 12:31-32; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). Christ will accomplish His salvation of all of His good and living humans because God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Genesis 1:31; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Romans 11:36; Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). 

The Apostle Paul provides an example of an evil human who became saved by grace. Very few evil people become saved by grace. Saul of Tarsus was evil because he had Christians murdered in defiance of God's Law: "Thou shalt not kill." Exodus 20:13 (KJB). But when Saul met Jesus on the road to Damascus, he repented and believed, and Christ saved him by His grace. Acts 9:1-6 (KJB). Christ forgave Saul's evil acts because He understood that Paul had done them while in a state of ignorance for which he also repented. I Timothy 1:11-16 (KJB). Christ's compassion for sinners will cause Him to forgive and save all of the good and living natures of all evil humans because He will cause them all to repent of their ignorance of God's true nature. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). But Christ will surely cast the separated spiritual deaths of all of His living humans who were not saved by His grace, who are totally evil, into the eternal lake of fire because they will never repent. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). This verse clearly states that Christ will cast only dead humans into the lake of fire. He means exactly that which He states. Christ annuls the spiritual deaths of all humans saved by His grace the moment they repent and believe. John 5:24; Galatians 2:19-20 (KJB).