RE: Absolute Truth
June 26, 2012 at 6:26 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2012 at 6:30 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 24, 2012 at 11:41 pm)OhimeSama Wrote: @Chuck
I personally don't have a good written definition for what truth is, or at least a definition that doesn't use some derivative of the word truth.
My father would say that truth is whatever God says.
And I know my father is a brilliant debater because I've watched him debate people on other topics. Nowhere did I say that he was simply a brilliant religious debater. One can debate well and still be wrong about religion.
I think you will need to work out a working definition of what IS truth first, before even thinking about what is THE truth, or whether THE truth is wholly, partially or not at all absolute.
People like CG, and from what I gather you dad, have no conception of the difference between the meaning of the word truth and what is the truth. This is why they can sprout drivel like "truth is whatever God says".
A person with a great degree of ignorance may argue logically that what god says perfectly reflects THE truth, But it is always logically nonsense to say what god says IS truth.
