Hi all you truth seekers.
What is truth? This will lead to Morality and the meaning of life.
Us humans demand truth at every corner from our family, doctors, our boss yet we do often do not expect it from morality or from faith/religion. Some reject that any faith/religion is true. Why do we demand truth everywhere but this area? People say there are no absolute truths, its all relative, opinion, do not judge, religion is only about faith and not facts!
If something is true, it is true for all people. All truth claims are absolute, narrow and exclusive. That means the opposite of truth is false.
A comment like, “there is no such thing as truth”, is self defeating as it is said as an absolute thus negating what you have just said. Another comment I often hear is, “All truth is relative and there are no absolutes.” Are you absolutely sure about this? It does not meet its own criteria by being absolute rather than relative. Another is, “its true for you but not for me”. Is this true for you or for everybody?
So truth exists, AND THIS IS ABSOLUTE. No self defeating words here.
If you deny this then you are making a self defeating claim. So complete agnosticism and skeptism cannot be true in the true definition of truth. Is religion/faith absolute? Are all religions true? NO, as they contradict each other in many ways even though in some ways they look similar.
Can truth be known then? If you say no and truth cannot be known, then it is self defeating again as you are making it an absolute and saying you know the truth, which is that nothing can be known.
Many truths about God can be seen by His effects, which we can observe and deduct. We can see the pattern just like the pattern in nature(science) and so called evolution. The same goes for morality and faith, these have eternal consequences and what we do not know or do not care about can hurt us. If there are no absolutes then why should anyone believe anything? Because we have evidence through our senses that there is an absolute. Some will say this is God. These senses allow me to know Him, allow me to study Him through the Bible and I have many other witnesses to this fact. In science we learn everything has a cause, so what caused the big bang? Whatever was before it operates beyond natural means and physical laws since there was nothing, so say some. There was something as science says there must be and the only reasonable answer is God. So what caused God? Nothing as He is eternal, outside of time and was never created.
1-Every law has a law giver
2- This is the moral/ethical law(the policy if you want)
3- Thus we have a moral/ethical/Policy law giver.
You see what happens is that if you think that there is no moral absolute then you can deceive yourself that you can change your behaviour and make it relative. This just allows us as individuals and as a society to go further down in the depths of depravity.
We cannot reduce morality to materialism. Does love have an atom? Does this moral law have chemical compositions? Moral law is something non-material and premise four would be that God gives us this moral law within each of us. Morals do not evolve out of co-operation within groups. If this is true then how does this evolution know to do this to “survive” which is an end in itself? This requires intelligence and evolution does not believe in that. If it is just survival and there are no standards then there is no difference between Mother Theresa and Adolf Hitler. This is would be appalling to most people? Why? They know there is a difference and we know this because of our moral law.
The meaning of life is about following the creator, knowing Him and finding your purpose through Him.
alexie |