What does this statement symbolize 4 U ?
2007-09-02 20:21:06 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Truth is a religious quality, it has nothing to do with fact.
However its original meaning of "good faith" has been moved to include honesty and sincerity by use in religous buildings in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The church meddling in science back in the 17th century (age of enlightenment) then pushed the word to mean an agreement with fact or reality.
Thus the word Truth is like religion, it is one of the few words that has no single definition about which the majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree.
English 'truth' is an nominalisation of the adjective true - from Old English (West Saxon) (ge)tríewe, tréowe, cognate to Old Saxon (gi)trûui, Old High German (ga)triuwu (Modern German treu "faithful"), Old Norse tryggr, Gothic triggws, all from a Proto-Germanic *trewwj- "having good faith".
Old Norse trú, means "faith, word of honour; religious faith, belief. We also get the word Betroval from this , it was an old Jewish system of a woman married but not yet living with her husband. Jewish law at the time of Jesus was extremely puritanical. Sex was considered obscene to the extent that a legal definition of virginity applied to women during a ‘betroval’ period of one year before the legal ‘taking
to’.
The distinction between betroval and marriage was a fine one. It seems that during the betroval period the woman was still legally a virgin even though the difference between betroval and marriage was only that the woman had not been taken to live in the husband's family home. Mary may
well have been a legal virgin according to Jewish law, and this definition carried over to the Bible without the understanding of its source.
"A myth is a narrative that a particular culture believes to be both true and significant, typical involving the supernatural or aiming to explain the nature of the universe and humanity. "
J. R. R. Tolkien,
Unlike scientific truth or observed truth, religious truth often makes the claim of being either revealed or inspired by God.
When there is a clash between religious truth and scientific truth, various methods have been used to reconcile the two. During the Middle Ages, for example, there was a conflict between Roman Catholic dogma on the one hand and an emerging body of scientific knowledge on the other.
Most of the time, the established church sought to suppress scientific truth, as in the case of Galileo, but occasionally the two truths were allowed to coexist, which led to the doctrine of the two truths.
Like all religious schollars, they took the higher ground, and looked down at the world, thus - according to this compromise, there is a lesser truth, scientific truth, which holds that the earth orbits the sun, and a greater truth, religious truth, that holds that the earth is the fixed center of the universe. According to the doctrine of the two truths, these two truths were both true in their own sphere.
2007-09-02 20:42:31 · answer #1 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a simple statement. It means if you want to find out the truth about something, you have to look. While this is a good statement, it is also a false one. Not everything has a true and false answer. There are some questions that have no answers, multiple answers, or conflicting answers. There is a grey area in some truths that allow for the truth itself to become false.
2007-09-02 20:32:10 · answer #2 · answered by ChaoticKimmy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Truth.
2007-09-02 20:26:08 · answer #3 · answered by Champion of Knowledge 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The X-Files.
2007-09-02 20:26:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think this means that wich ever route you follow [religion wise] everyone will fidn their truth, no matter what they believe in.
Or of course it could just mean the X files :P
2007-09-03 01:05:13 · answer #5 · answered by kausik.mitra@ymail.com 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Something with the mystery of Life God And the Holly Trinity all combined together..actually call me crazy but I feel the results about our earth would not be trumpets and a chorus of angels
2007-09-02 20:45:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The truth is changing, the truth is out there.
When you go out to see, it changed. You cannot see the truth but you can read it.
2007-09-03 11:02:49 · answer #7 · answered by johnkamfailee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is always truth, but often we close our eyes and hope for the best.
2007-09-02 21:38:10 · answer #8 · answered by evergreen 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Right, the TRUTH is OUT THERE!
And the truth is: there are no gods and, least of all, NO JESUS
2007-09-02 22:17:02 · answer #9 · answered by Montgomery B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
simple you have to find the truth by looking at all the evidence
2007-09-03 01:17:42 · answer #10 · answered by manapaformetta 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋