Does God Lie 2?
Exactly. My physical being may be false. That much is clear. But this ‘self’, not my body, not my experiences- the thing that says ‘I am’ cannot be doubted. Because I think therefore I am. Now whether this is as a physical body or a brain in a vat we have no way to know. That is the bound of human knowledge it seems. That we can’t know anything for certain except this thing- that ‘I’ am. So we don’t really ‘know’ anything. It’s just a bunch of probabilities. This wouldn’t affect my daily life though because I use the other ‘knowledge’ in a pragmatic way. I don’t have to believe that an apple physically exists to enjoy its taste- it may just be a part of a virtual simulation for all I know. The issue is that God is not something as simple and arbitrary as an apple. His justice or truthfulness is paramount to my existence. And it seems that most people just assume he would be speaking the truth about himself and his dealing when there’s really no way to test this.