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what is truth?
Truth is not a thing, but a Person. Truth is Jesus Christ.what is truth?
Truth is reality, and is not delusion or superstition.
Truth is the way things, in fact, are. As mentioned above: reality.
If someone asks "What is reality?", could not someone say "Reality is what true about things"? So, then truth is reality and reality is truth. That is not saying anything, really. You might as well say "truth is truth".
I think, although I may be wrong, that when someone asks "What is truth?" they are asking for more than that. They are asking how do we determine what is true. How do we know what is the true religion? Or if any is true? How do we know what we know is true? To say that truth is the way things are still does not answer that.
Atheists would say that the resurrection of Christ is a delusion or a superstition. They would also say that faith is a delusion or superstition.
So I guess if this is all a delusion and a superstition, then we might as well stop going to church, get off this forum, and watch some football this Sunday. Right?
No I can't. God has visited me in vision of Heavenly Father and filled me with Love and Peace that lasted for hours. A super contrast to what I usually feel. So I know he exists. But yeah they would probably say it was a delusion.
So how do you know it was not a delusion? What if a Mormon had the same experience? What if a Catholic had a similar experience? I, myself, has had a feeling of Love and Peace that lasted me for hours when I received Christ in the Eucharist. And yet our belief systems are poles apart. So can both of our experiences validate contradictory belief systems?
The question was, "What is truth?" You say my response is a tautology. Most definitions, if they are accurate, are tautologies. A definition is simply another way to say the same thing.
If the OP had asked the other questions you bring up, I might have tried to offer an answer to those. As things stand, I offered an answer to the question that was asked.
Why are you taking me to task on this?
On the physical side of things, one might say that truth is that which corresponds to reality. On the spiritual side of things, biblically speaking, truth is centered on and personified in the person of Jesus. I believe there is a way to reconcile the physical and the spiritual approaches to the question of truth.what is truth?
Which reality?There is a very simple, working definition of Truth: That which corresponds to reality.
Jesus obtained the truth from His Father.Truth is not a thing, but a Person. Truth is Jesus Christ.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6
Jesus is not a truth. He is the truth. All truth stems from Jesus. That is why we Christians are called to be lovers of truth (1 Thessalonians 2:10). When we touch any truth we touch Jesus. When we embrace a lie we are turning away from Him.
That means the the first step to find truth is humility before God (Jesus). Smarts does not guarantee knowledge of any truth, whether it be scientific, historical, mathematical, or any other truth. A good lawyer can get an innocent man off. A clever lawyer can get a guilty man off. The smart man can make a lie look like the truth. But his pride prevents him from looking at the possibility that he is wrong. Only God can humble a proud man. All the proud man can do is humbly plead to God, at least as humbly as he can, and perhaps God will have mercy on him so that he can find the truth.
This is partial true and partially incorrect.Truth is reality, and is not delusion or superstition.
No, this is incorrect.Atheists would say that the resurrection of Christ is a delusion or a superstition. They would also say that faith is a delusion or superstition.
So I guess if this is all a delusion and a superstition, then we might as well stop going to church, get off this forum, and watch some football this Sunday. Right?