After reading the answers to my other questions, I'm getting the feeling that non-Christians need for the truth to be flexible to accomodate whatever they believe.
Maybe I should ask:
Is truth universal, or is it flexible?
2007-03-06 17:57:34 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is. There are absolute truths in this world. 2+2 will always equal 4. Gravity is constant. Two hydrogens and an oxygen will always make water. So, those are universal truths.
But, and I assume you are christian by your wording, you hold the bible to be true. You believe god created the earth and man, there was a flood, Jonah was swallowed by a large fish, jesus was the son of god, died, and was resurrected on the third day.
Those are subjective truths. Not all people of this world, and this country for that matter, hold the words in the bible as truth.
I for one am an atheist. I don't hold any religious writing as true. A pagan would hold certain religious writings as true, but not likely the words in your bible. As, I would expect you to not hold their religious writings as true either.
So, a statement such as "non-christians need for the truth to be flexible to accommodate whatever they believe" is somewhat an ignorant statement. Not implying you are ignorant, just that you seem to think your way of thinking is universally true, and everyone else out there is having to bend the "truth"(your version) to fit their beliefs/ way of life.
2007-03-06 18:15:48 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what is truth?
i think you'll get yourself into a lot of trouble if you play with absolutes too much. beware!
anyway, purely logically speaking, of course truth is absolute (my substitute for your word universal) - the statement 'there are no absolute truths' is in itself an absolute truth. but, then, who really cares for logic? it doesn't have any relation to the truth.
anyway, you christians should have no truck with absolute truth. jesus claimed to be the truth. that means truth is a person, its not an absolute statement at all. thats if christianity (another question: what is christianity?) is 'true' of course...
2007-03-07 02:14:00 · answer #2 · answered by the_supreme_father 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ugh! non-Christians is kindof a broad category, don't you think? Truth cannot be flexible, faith is. If it is truth, then new information only confirms or further explains it, it does not change it.
2007-03-07 02:03:55 · answer #3 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry, where learning how to make the truth flexible via the many examples of Christian propaganda.
2007-03-07 02:02:04 · answer #4 · answered by Terry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are asking a philosophical question which mimicks the question of universal reality or relativity.
Quantum Physics is based on relativity- ie there is no universal reality. Whereas religions such as christianity claim to be based in a modern sense on the existence of a universal reality, even though it can't be proven, only believed through faith.
So you be the judge.
2007-03-07 02:00:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The word "truth" without a referent is meaningless.
A specific claim may be clearly true. Another may seem to be clearly true, until the claim is understood more completely, at which point it may be found to be only partly true.
Abstract discussions about "truth" without concrete definitions are useless discussions.
2007-03-07 02:05:07 · answer #6 · answered by Jim L 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean by truth?
Truth could be.
True/\True=True
True/\false=True
Last time i checked Christianity had so many different sects because people bent the words of the bible so they could worship however they wanted.
2007-03-07 02:01:50 · answer #7 · answered by thejoyfaction 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. "Truth" is objective. Presumably truth can be discovered through logic and evidence. Religious dogma does not allow for change regardless of evidence.
2007-03-07 02:06:10 · answer #8 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How should we know?
That's one of the reasons I think the concept of a god was introduced in the first place -
Humans have a need to know. There's a lot that they don't know. So, we make up a being that does know. There. Easy way out.
2007-03-07 02:01:13 · answer #9 · answered by Snark 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The mistake you are making is out-group homogeneity bias.
Which entitles me to not elaborate further.
2007-03-07 02:04:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋