Posted by
JasonC on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:21:20 PM
Truth
simply is. Truth doesn’t come undone because someone disagrees with it,
and truth doesn’t become false because someone says it’s false. We now
know that the Earth is round; people used to think it was flat. Did
their misinformed opinion change the truth? Did the Earth stop being
round and become flat because people said it was flat? No. They were
just plain wrong. Period. End of story.
Now
some people might say that the physical world has its facts but that
the moral, spiritual, philosophical world doesn’t. But it does. It has
to. There either is a God or there isn’t. And if He exists, He either
loves us or hates us. He either created us or He didn’t. There either
is a true, absolute moral standard or there isn’t. If this weren’t the
case, all of life would be a crapshoot – no one would ever have the
right to question another’s actions or accuse them of wrongdoing, for
there could be no true wrongdoing, only a difference of opinion. I know
that some people like to say and believe that each person “defines his
own truth.” But that’s an intellectually-dishonest possibility. We are
each human; we each live on the same planet in the same universe under
the same natural laws; we each enter the world in the same fashion
(physical birth) and leave the world in the same fashion (physical
death). How, then, can you say that your truth is different than mine?
Your experience is different, yes; your way of interpreting the
evidence may be different, sure. But if you interpret things wrongly,
you have not changed the truth. You are just plain wrong. Period. End
of story.