Does God Lie 2?
Discussion 41784 • Reply 41939 @faisalharoon Maybe my hand is false. Maybe my chair is false. But my ‘self’, me, my soul- I cannot deny that. I think therefore I am. And the essence of existence must be truth, because if it was falsehood it could simply not exist. If something’s existence is based on falsehood then it does not exist. So ‘I’ am real. ‘I’ am true. And that means that the person who gave this ‘self’, and is maintaining it must be true. Because if he was even a little bit false then he would not be true and then my existence would be false which I cannot deny. And the giver of this ‘self’ must be true. Because it is the giver of all existence. And if his existence was based on falsehood then (existence based on falsehood means he can’t exist) nothing would exist since he is the source of all existence. But this is only his existence. What about the things he says? Everything I know, my ability to even think is from him. My definition of truth is based upon what he says- he is the source of truth. But what is the essence of communication and information? Is it truth? It seems that we can communicate information that is false. ‘I have one trillion pounds’. This is information based on falsehood. So who is to say that the being who’s the existence is based solely on truth cannot communicate ideas that are not in accordance with reality? How can you say that falsehood is the absence of truth when it comes to information then? The analogy of light and darkness doesn’t work unless we are talking about existence
I do not know whether I am a brain in a vat. If I was I wouldn’t know I was. Therefore I can’t be certain that I am in a real physical world. When you are in a dream you do not know you are until you wake up. Until then, everything is real. How do you know you are not dreaming right now and will wake up in some other reality? Maybe that was just the programming of the coder who put a brain in a vat. The possibilities are endless, and the evidences are sparse to make any of them believable with certainty
https://keystotheunseen.com/2018/10/08/god-does-not-signify-lies/amp/ This is the only argument that seems to make sense to me