The Most Perplexing Question

What is truth? This question was famously asked by Pontius Pilate. He was the Roman governor of Judea from A.D. 26-36, during the time Emperor Tiberius was in power. That question is very elusive and hard to pin down for any human being. What is it? Can it be known? How do we find it? These are all valid questions. Let me pose the case for absolute and ultimate truth here and this is why.

If all truth is relative then we have no reference point. No standard. Nothing to base anything else on and nothing is certain. In other words we are all walking contradictions and no one is right and no one is wrong. This also gets into the arena of morality as well. Is that not dangerous? I mean think of all the scenarios that could go down with the idea that everything is relative. I can nuke millions of people and justify it because the majority of people believe this group of people to be inferior. Is it true that those people were inferior? How about this one. I can put 6 million people to death through experimentation, gas chambers, and inhumane violence because I say they are not human. Were those people who were exterminated humans or not? Last one. I say the Sun is made of cotton candy. Now come on, I won't even entertain this one.

I'll go even further and say we should not even have court systems because if truth is relative then I should just be able to throw someone in jail, even if they are in fact innocent, because I think I am right. We actually have judges who live by that mindset unfortunately and the reality is that is has destroyed the lives of a bevy of people. Can we honestly look ourselves in the mirror, sit and say THIS IS GOOD?

The reason I pose absolute truth is because it is a standard. It was true in the past, it is true now, and it will be true in the future. You can take it to the bank. It is certain. It is THE ultimate and nothing anyone says can change it. It is TRUE. For example. "Absolute truth exists". Sorry, I'd rather not build my house on cotton candy.

Because I have been pondering spiritual matters I wanted to discuss this idea of truth. Jesus himself claimed to be this ultimate truth and Pilate didn't recognize it when he questioned Jesus about truth. Jesus claimed to be the one and only truth regardless of what anyone else says. However, me believing this does not make this true whatsoever. So what do you do then with that claim? Test the evidence, search the facts, see what eyewitnesses said, and due your due diligence. Follow the crumb trail and see where the evidence takes you and you just may be lead to a concrete conclusion as to what is the TRUTH.