A God Of Truth

A God who both knows and cares about truth would never demand people believe in its existence on the basis of assumptions (epistemological faith).  It would know the difference between the logical necessity of an uncaused cause and the logical possibility that it itself is the true deity, as well as the difference between logical proof and the various evidences humans have access to which could suggest that God is Yahweh specifically.  It would also know human limitations and that even these epistemological limitations cannot prevent willing individuals from coming to rationalistic truths about the matter, or from being open to any logical possibility, even if they prefer for something else to be true.

The Christian deity is such a God.  Jesus, speaking on behalf of Yahweh, says that the truth sets us free (John 8:32).  God is love, says 1 John 4:8, and Paul states that love rejoices in the truth (1 Corinthians 13:6).  It is possible to love falsehood and illusion, but Yahweh and Christ have no fondness for the irrationalism of fallacies and philosophical apathy.  Any beings with their power to gaze into human minds would also know the truth about a person's rationality and sincerity.  Rationality and sincerity are actually what they want.  Indeed, commitment to Christ in repentance already hinges on such a thing being logically possible even though many Christians (and non-Christians too) fear or despise true reason.

Sometimes this is because they partially realize that Christianity cannot be fully proven and think that they must believe it can be anyway.  The Biblical prohibition of lying (Leviticus 19:11) would actually mean people sin when they say humans can know if the whole of Christianity is true, as opposed to just certain parts of it, like the existence of an uncaused cause (Genesis 1:1) and mind-body dualism (James 2:26).  None of this means Christianity is false, or that if it was false, that it could not have been true.  Biblical Christianity is logically possible.  While some parts are true by logical necessity, others are at least possible or have a great deal of evidences in their favor, such as the historicity of Christ, his crucifixion and resurrection, and many other historical details in Biblical narratives.  It would still be irrational and self-deceptive at a minimum to believe that evidence proves anything more than that evidence exists on the level of perception.

The metaphysical laws of logic and the truths they epistemologically reveal are what allow for knowledge.  Without them, there would not even be truths to know!  Reason alone can prompt a person to discover the inherent irrationality of assumptions.  Even within the specifically proclaimed ideas of the Bible, however, it would follow that someone who makes assumptions deceives themselves or disregards truth, perhaps deceiving others by claiming that the unverifiable is indeed demonstrable.  Though common misconceptions of the Christian Yahweh include the notion that he is beyond the laws of logic and can be "known" through faith, which he allegedly demands whether or not knowledge is supposedly involved, the Bible teaches otherwise.  A God of truth would be far from such fallacious or erroneous beliefs.

That the Bible says lying is immoral means that it would be Biblically immoral to deny rationalism or any of its ramifications.  No matter how penetrating or terrifying or deep they are, logical truths cannot be or have been any other way, and thus it is always a lie to claim anything to the contrary regardless of intention.  With or without using words in one's thoughts, it is also a lie, a lie to one's own self, to believe in fallacies or contradictions as if they are epistemologically valid and true respectively.  Again, a deity who knows and loves and conveys the truth would not be against either these truths or the discovery of them by individual people.  Openness to the logical possibility of and evidence for Christianity, as well as to the logical necessity of some parts of Christianity, and a willingness to sincerely commit on the basis of possibility and evidences is what the Biblical Yahweh desires.