Does God Lie 2?
I used to deny this idea from this very angle. That what could God gain from lying to us? It satisfied me for a long time until I talked to an agnostic person who basically said that who are we to decide God’s motives or why he would be doing something? How do we know he hasn’t actually shaped our perception in a certain way? We wouldn’t know if he did I guess
Rather that “Does God Lie”, perhaps the title should be, “Does Allah not Tell Us Everything” and that will be true.
Logic and the existence of everything would come under doubt yes. But the knowledge of the self. The knowledge the ‘I’ am can never come under scrutiny. If doubting God was logically unreasonable I understand. But just because it constricts our level of ‘true’ knowledge doesn’t mean that it is incorrect. It just means that actual knowledge is very limited, and that we are just being pragmatic in the way of science etc
Of course knowledge is relative. We did discuss this in a lot of detail earlier. In case of doubting God even the knowledge of our own selves must be scrutinized. Do we really exist or we’re only a thought in someone else’s head? Even if we do exist, all our experiences could be just virtual reality. How do I know that you exist? Perhaps you’re just my false perception. Even if you do exist, are you really a rational being like me or a carefully crafted robot? There’s no end to speculation in this line of thinking. The sad part is that after spending years of effort, one can’t conclude anything. Why? Because they failed to understand the bounds of human knowledge.
The same way I can doubt whether this whole world exists and I’m not just a brain in a vat, I can speculate whether the universe was just created five minutes ago. This is where human knowledge fails. There no way to disprove that proposition. The same way, established history can be scrutinised when we look at knowledge from this higher plane rather than assuming that our human rationality or senses are true- because that is, in fact, an assumption it seems