True/False

The following is going to sound so silly simple, so bare bones basic.

“Only the false is opposed to the true” (Thomas Aquinas)

What do you know that is true? What opposes that truth?

Truth is of God. False is a reaction to the truth so therefore a reaction to God.

“Those things, then, are not the best by nature which are not from God, the Author of nature. Thus they are understood to be from the devil, from the corrupter of nature: for there is no other whose they can be, if they are not God's; because what are not God's must necessarily be His rival's.” (Tertullian)

Now you know false, its creator and motivation.

“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

Pursuing truth is pursuing God. It is our nature to seek the truth, but act is a choice of our will. The opposite holds true as well. The devil, who abides, “not in the truth” and who is “the corrupter of nature”, still can only affect our will.

It is our choice. It is always our choice.

Bill Hitchcock