Define truth as you will.
2007-03-12 14:23:49 · 13 answers · asked by Phyllobates 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I know what my definition of the "Truth" is. I wondered what others would be.
2007-03-12 14:39:10 · update #1
I will await more answers.
2007-03-12 14:39:30 · update #2
If you mean Truth, with a capital 'T', then I think yes.
Because we each see Truth in ways that suit us. It's down to something called 'cognitive bias' (specifically a confirmation bias). Which I suppose implies that there is no one, absolute, knowable Truth. There's a degree of faith too.
And of course, perhaps Truth is like reflections in the shards of a shattered mirror? All similar, but slightly different. And when we finally think we have pieced it together into the One Truth, we realise we're just looking at a reflection after all?
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2007-03-12 15:06:50 · answer #1 · answered by Nobody 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God in all three persons he reveals himself in(Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit) is the truth. The truth is not relative to what people believe. I can believe that 2+2 is 5 that does not change the fact that the truth is 4. Let's not forget that someone's beliefs can be wrong. Everything God says, does, and thinks is truth and the only way to know this truth is to know God through his son Jesus Christ.
2007-03-12 21:57:48 · answer #2 · answered by 4Christ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's the way I see Truth. Our beliefs do absolutely nothing to change what is true. Any of us may go thru a lifetime thinking we have the truth and attach ourselves to it so firmly we strongly believe we HAVE the truth. But what is ultimately true will not change because people believe it to be true. It's wiser to settle for beliefs. With our limited brain power...the real TRUTH is unknowable.
2007-03-13 11:08:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is open to interpretation. The truth is relative to the reality of the person whom answers. The "Truth" can not be known completely in a relative experience, one would have to be in an absolute experience to completely discern truth........Anyway, the truth for me means live and let live.
2007-03-12 21:29:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quoted from Skeptic.
You Want the Truth?!?!
YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!
2007-03-12 21:29:53 · answer #5 · answered by uhohspaghettiohohs 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ah, but there's the problem - truth is what a person believes to be true. (Even Pontius Pilate knew that.)
2007-03-12 21:29:47 · answer #6 · answered by irish1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My hope is to do that one day soon.
For me truth is a man named Jesus.
2007-03-12 22:16:50 · answer #7 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is what you accept to be fact. Whether it is backed up with scientific facts or not.
2007-03-12 21:28:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't handle the Truth!!!
ah I couldn't resist that line :D
2007-03-12 21:27:01 · answer #9 · answered by Skeptic123 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends. For example could we handle the fact, if it were true, that our spouse is a cross dresser? Or a mass murderer? It's up to each of us to decide for ourselves.
2007-03-12 21:39:33 · answer #10 · answered by Imogen Sue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋