Truth – It's a Fact

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 -- if there were no moral, spiritual, philosophical facts -- then 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.