What is Truth?

Answer 1

When I think of reality, I think of a model of self and world that an individual fashions within their own mind to orient self towards existence and explain existence to self. I think of reality as fashion. I think of actuality as truth. While most people would like for their own reality to be in accord with the actuality of their existence, fashion and truth are not always in agreement.

The difference between truth and reality is definition and word usage. When I use the word 'reality' in the phrase 'ideology fashions reality', I am using the above definition for the word reality. I am suggesting that I tend to combine a finite understanding of truth with a favored myth and call it reality. The reality that results from combining finite truth and myth appears to me to be the way things are because the reality I fashion from truth and myth appears to be in accord with actuality. If and when the way I fashion reality appears to be in conflict with actuality, then the way I fashion reality changes.

Answer 2

What is truth?

Depending upon who you ask today, the question "What is Truth" will get you very different answers and, perhaps, lead to even more questions. Here are some current thoughts on truth:

There is No Absolute Truth.

But wait a minute! This statement is making an absolute claim to truth. It defeats its own claim.

Truth is Relative.

Does that include the statement that truth is relative? It would have to, making this statement invalid since no claim to truth can be made by this statement, including the claim that truth is relative.

You have Your Truth and I have My Truth.

And if your truth and my truth are in conflict, what do we have? Can there be conflicting truths? If so, then how do you determine what is valid? If my truth is that there is no God, and your truth is that there is a God, does that really effect whether there is a God or not? Saying that we each have our own truth may make us comfortable but we would have to not care about truth to say this, because no matter what my experience or your experience tells us, the truth exists as it is.

Truth is within You.

Seek truth within yourself and you are back to what your experience tells you or to what you want to be the truth. Your perception may affect you and be true to what you want to believe, but it does not affect what the truth really is. Your experience and belief could be telling you that something false is true.

So what is Truth?

If you're tired of wondering or of playing these mind games, consider that maybe truth is not all that complex. Maybe it is something a child can grasp. Maybe truth is a person. The God-Man Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)

Will you be like Pilate, who asked "What is truth?" (John 18:38) right after Jesus said to him, "And I came to bring truth to the world. All who love the truth recognize that what I say is true," (John 18:37b)?

Or will you be like the Roman officer who saw Jesus die on the cross and said, "Truly, this was the Son of God!" (Mark 15:39)

As Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies, " (John 11:25) and "I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved; and shall go in and out, and find pasture," (John 10:9).

Answer 3

Truth is immutable permanent substratum, which stays the same. All the temporary things have "Names" and "Forms" and they have emerged from above beginning-less and end-less substratum Truth.

An analogy will help us to understand the concept in a better way. When a clay-pot gets merged back into clay, it becomes nothing i.e. without name and form. Then the merged clay-pot is everything. Now merged clay-pot knows that it is the substratum for all possible potential names-and-forms such as various types of clay-pots, bricks etc. In other example, Truth is a permanent canvas on which painting of manifestation and un-manifestation is made.

Answer 4

1. the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
2. conformity with fact or reality; verity: the truth of a statement.
3. a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like: mathematical truths.
4. the state or character of being true.
5. actuality or actual existence.
6. an obvious or accepted fact; truism; platitude.
7. honesty; integrity; truthfulness.
8. (often initial capital letter) ideal or fundamental reality apart from and transcending perceived experience: the basic truths of life.
9. agreement with a standard or original.
10. accuracy, as of position or adjustment.
11. Archaic. fidelity or constancy.
—Idiom12. in truth, in reality; in fact; actually: In truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire.

Answer 5

This is the same questions that Pontious Pilate asked Jesus before he was sent to be executed. The Truth was standing right in front of him and he could not recognize him; the truth is the teachings about God's kingdom. Jesus represents this truth. Jesus came to Earth to bare witness to the truth of God's Kingdom. The truth is, that the only way to gain everlasting life under this new Kingdom, is through Jesus; since, he is our re-purchaser.

Answer 6

"conformity with fact or reality;"

Jesus is the way and the truth and the life......

Also, it is written, "3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."

Answer 7

I had a person ask me years ago, if I could have one wish what would it be? I told them ,,,(The Truth),,,I hope one day we all will have that answer,

Answer 8

something that can be tested and the end results happens continuously. then its valid or truthful or the truth.

Answer 9

Is truth unchanging law?
We both have truths, are mine the same as yours?

(Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Jesus Christ, Superstar")

Answer 10

The opposite of Lie.