So do you think you have the Absolute Truth ?

Question

The story is old but is still relevant.

A frog from a big lake wandered & fell down into a well. The frogs of the well asked him,"Where r u from?" I am from a big lake?

How big? A frog leapt and covered 7/8 feet. The lake-frog said- no bigger than that.

Another frog leapt 9 feet and asked ," Is yr lake this big?".No the lake-frog replied. My lake is very big and my father told there is ocean much bigger than that lake!!

The leaders of the frog, leapt and covered one end of the well and reached the other end and asked "Yr lake cant be more than this ?
lake frog said,"Much bigger than that-

They all decided- this frog is idiot. He is blaspheming our belief...there cant be any water body bigger than this well...and all punished that frog by killing him.

BE Honest ! Are you a frog from the well? Do you think the Truth is not more than what you know ??

Answer 1

I love that frog story, The truth can not be "thought" but it can be known. ~ : )

Answer 2

Outside of mathematics there is no absolute truth. In the real world the term truth has different meanings. This often leads to confusion when people talking about truth mean different things. There are always four sides to a story: 1) Their side. 2) Your side. 3) The truth 4) and what really happened. The truth is what stays in our common memory. Often the truth is what the news papers write. In stories about conflicts the truth is usually the tale the winner tells.

Answer 3

The question may be raised, "Since there are so many varieties of philosophers theorizing in different ways, which of them is correct?" The answer is that the Absolute Truth, Transcendence, is never subject to direct experience or mental speculation. The mental speculator may be called Dr. Frog. The story is that a frog in a three-foot well wanted to calculate the length and breadth of the Atlantic Ocean on the basis of his knowledge of his own well. But it was an impossible task for Dr. Frog. A person may be a great academician, scholar or professor, but he cannot speculate and expect to understand the Absolute Truth, for his senses are limited. The cause of all causes, the Absolute Truth, can be known from the Absolute Truth Himself, and not by our ascending process to reach Him.

Answer 4

Well, Jesus would fit the parable of the frog from the big lake, and if He came for the first time today, especially among some of the atheists on this website, He'd be dead just as surely. Heck, the authorities would probably draft in a law re-instating the Death Penalty for the one-time purpose of killing Him.

But it wouldn't stop His teaching being the absolute truth: and as I follow His teachings and no other so-called god's or prophet's (save those the Triune Godhead Himself inspired in the Bible), then yes, I have the absolute truth dwelling within me; the Holy Spirit, the token given by which I KNOW I have eternal life as defined by the Lord Jesus Christ.

For Knyghtzero: is your opinion absolutely true?

Answer 5

Yup it's relevent. This was the story that inspired me to some extent. My perspective of looking at things and understanding things were restricted to my concious knowledge. I could not look beyond. But this story inspired me to look at things from different perspectives, different mindsets.

As far as absolute truth is concerned, widening my perspective has definitely helped, but I'm not anywhere near to it. I gotta develop myself a lot, learn a lot. I'm defintely not the frog in the well ('Koop-manduk'), nor the one who knows about the ocean. But I realize that there is an ocean out there, and the distance from this well (materialism) to that ocean (spirituality) is too large. And I need to follow a specific path towards the ocean. I'm yet not sure taht the path I'm following is the right one, but it's worth giving a try, rather than sitting in the well and believing that this is the only world possible.

All the best...

:-)

Answer 6

Of course the Trush is more than what I know. But it's not more than what God knows. And there's one problem with your frog analogy. All Christians start out as non-Christians. I'm assuming that you think the atheists are the "lake frogs". In that case, all the "well frogs" started out in the lake, so we know the other side.

P.S. We don't believe in killing people for sinning. Jesus once stopped some people from stoning an adulteress with these words, "He who has no sin, cast the first stone."

Answer 7

I believe that I will continue to learn with the help of the Holy Spirit and that nothing is impossible for God....and though I do not know or understand, I Trust that the Holy Spirit will show me Truth when I am ready.

Sorry, cannot be clearer than that....I doubt I will know it all until after I am off this earth and in Heaven....when all will be revealed.

So.... I guess I identify with the frog that was crucified....

(have you noticed my name here? "ForeverSet")

Answer 8

I agree with SUN ....NO ONE knows the truth and those that claim to are either arrogant or liars.
The only truth I need is to say it's TRUE that I am very lucky and have a great life, a wonderful husband and live in theeee most wonderful country in the world (Scotland!)

Answer 9

Belief in some thing is better than no thing, surely?

If we don't have confidence in our tried & tested beliefs, we'd be wall flowers & weaklings, surely?

I get what you mean, but there'd be know way for the well frogs to leave the well, so would there be a point in dreaming of lakes & oceans?

I don't know...

But I do get what you mean... :-)

Answer 10

How can anyone, or any entity have the finality of all 'Absolute Truth' ?

We are still making it up, it's an 'organic' thing ! Hehehehehe...

That doesn't stop any of us 'knowing' quite a bit, understanding even more, and constantly striving to understand more.

It's the questions that drive us.