In most places, if you can back up your claim it's considered truth. If it's "true" then one can see it and it is accepted by the majority. It is an accepted truth.
Christianity is only 1/3 of the world which means that more people don't accept it then do. So how is it the only truth?
2007-12-03 07:14:26 · 9 answers · asked by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree that absolute truth stands alone. 2+2 will always equal four. But we can back that up, which is what makes it the absolute truth correct? Which means that the majority of people pretty much have to accept it, right?
2007-12-03 07:49:32 · update #1
It is the only truth for those that accept it.
Since all don't accept it, it isn't absolute truth.
2007-12-03 07:19:53 · answer #1 · answered by Laff -Hugs 4all- 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The truth does have an energy, a power. an efficiency when used. But, it takes a lot of work to arrive close to, and a lot of character to represent with heart felt conviction. Science does well in searching for the truth. Religion tends to be to traditional and stuck in the past. The truth is often messy and on the slippery slope between extremes. We live in the real world where judging what is real, and what is fantasy can be difficult, and complicated. Arriving at the exact truth, is like gettin an exact measurement: one can only get so close. One needs a certain humility, when looking for the truth. So often what appears to be right, later on will be shown not to be very accurate. Ideologies may be comforting, but the truth is in the real world, which is a blend of different factors affecting a situation, and requires thought and pragmatism to find what is most correct.
2007-12-03 15:41:20 · answer #2 · answered by astrogoodwin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is true no matter what the accepted belief is. The concept that Truth is formed by the majority is ridiculous. No matter what the majority of people believe 2 apples plus 2 apples will always be 4 apples.
2007-12-03 15:36:10 · answer #3 · answered by Zach 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not historically. But we're ever-growing in truth as we pursue it. Therefore I think Fromm is right in saying that we have an "ever-increasing approximation of the truth." That is, of course, if we keep actively seeking it.
"The search for truth is more precious than it's possession."
-Einstein
Edit: Zach is right. Truth stands alone. For example, in situations, there are 3 sides to every story. Your side, my side, and the truth. Just because someone believes something doesn't validate it as being "truth".
2007-12-03 15:40:51 · answer #4 · answered by Sweetfeet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In our American culture, false ideas are accepted far more widely and easily than truth. Look at our politics. Do you think we would elect anybody who really told the truth, either about him/her self or about the issues we face? No way. We're a nation of self-deceiving hypocrites. Probably all nations are to some degree.
2007-12-03 15:29:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Majority of the Nazis thought they were doing the right thing(In Germany).
They weren't, but the majority thought it was true.
2007-12-03 15:30:36 · answer #6 · answered by Link strikes back 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is assumed truth which may not be actual truth. Assumed truth implies that something is true and accepted as the norm or standard until it is proven to be false. Take the case of the practice of bleeding out to cure people of disease. For many centuries this was medical truth that if you bled people out they could be cured of certain diseases. This of course was proven to be false in most cases the practice was used for.
Now, many people are convienced that the Christian truth is one of many ways to believe and this is assumed truth. When a person really begins to seek for the one true God and opens up their spirit for truth no matter what it costs, then they find that Jesus Christ is truth and his truth will set you free.
2 Corinthians 4:1 ¶ Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2007-12-03 16:03:31 · answer #7 · answered by Bobby B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth.
~ Chinese proverb
2007-12-03 15:21:24 · answer #8 · answered by XPEH BAM 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no one truth!
2007-12-03 15:31:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋