~~ By James Fire(taken in part from Baker’s Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, John MacArthur’s The TRUTH War, Zondervan’s Pictorial Encyclopedia and the Holy Bible)
Pilate is often quoted with the question he asked while presiding in judgment over Him Who is Truth: “What is Truth?”
Philosophers like Socrates and others all the way to present day have asked whether Truth is absolute, others have asked if it even exists at all, in any form. Is truth knowable? Does it relate to reality (ontology- the philosophical study of the nature of reality:
What Is Ontology?), or is it merely conceptual?
The IMPORTANCE of the NATURE of TRUTH –
The nature of truth is important to the Christian faith. Christianity claims that there is absolute truth (even though a growing number of Christians polled deny this!) and that it corresponds to how things really are.
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