“God is the essence of truth.”
People, as a whole, naturally gravitate towards what they want to think of as the truth.
Do atheists inherently possess a disposition for irony?
Believers assert that God, with specific intentions, creates all things. Keeping this in mind, it follows that God intentionally created people who want to disassociate themselves from the mainstream conception of truth–people known as atheists.
Agnostics are connoted to be skeptical. They seem to want to believe in God–in other words, find infinite truth and knowledge–but they will not allow themselves to believe because there is not enough evidence to support the existence of inextirpable truth. So is knowledge itself even trustworthy of being infinitely valid?
What has been named God is believed to exist for all times. “As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.” But God–though “in” all things–exists separately from Earth and all else it is attributed to have created. Like an artist whose individual nature is evident in his or her masterpiece, a portion of God is evident in all its creations–but a creation is not the creator. All things in existence are said to be objects created by the sculptor of eternal truth and knowledge. Yet they are objects which exist in a universe of just as much or more fallibility and chaos as truth and knowledge. These creations might be reminders of truth, but not truth itself. They are objects with the ability to represent truth; but they cannot project it, enforce it, spread its influence, even explain it.
Perhaps humankind’s “free will” is simply a natural disposition among individuals to dedicate themselves to, or disassociate themselves from, the lifelong search for truth. Conscience, perhaps, is the disposition for steadfast studiousness–what might be called “faith.” Faith, then, is not effortless, but requires persistence in the study of, and journey towards, truth. A person who believes in what is called God must be incessantly rewarded with proof that he or she has found the path towards divine truth. Agnostics do not think themselves lucky enough to have found that path yet, but are looking for the same kinds of signs that believers claim to be seeing to indicate the correctness of their path–“blessings.”