by Cinda Smaagaard

Created on: December 27, 2008

Truth does exist. Ultimate truths are beliefs which are universally true for everyone. Relativity means that what is true for you or your circumstance is not true for others. It is important to know that there are universal truth statements, for example, in science and math. When it comes to religious belief, however, truth may be harder to come by. As the great French philosopher Blaise Pascal tells us, "The God of Christians does not consist of a God who is simply the author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements" (Christianity Today, December 2008). God, Christ and the Holy Spirit of God embody truth itself.

Jesus tells us that he is the "way, the truth and the life" in the New Testament at John 14:6. Ironically, Pontius Pilate and other detractors even to this day question Jesus and his followers as to "what is truth?" Can a person actually embody the essence of truth itself? Not simply a way, or a path to it, but the very being of truth? Christians who accept the religious concept of the trinitarian Godhead do believe that God, Christ and the Holy Spirit do embody the meaning and nature of truth since the Creator is the one who made Natural Law and designed reality into being. "I think therefore I am," but many question whether self-revelation or awareness is enough. By understanding the nature and being of God, our concepts of what is real in ourselves and in the world are not dependent upon only what is contained within our minds. We have divine revelation as to what is real that can also be depended upon. Not only can we rely upon God's revelation, it would be the only thing that could or would be truth since it can only come from a place of knowing that exceeds the limited boundaries of the human mind. One would have to know the history, circumstance, interior of the human heart of others, what might occur tomorrow or into the future, as well as the motivations, incentives and desires of people, animals, plants and all things in nature in order to arrive at some kind of ultimate, universal, and knowledgeable truth. God explains why it is important to know truth and to act upon it as well.

Scientists are trying at this point in time to discover just that kind of universal truth, for example, the theory of everything. The physical scientists have mapped our DNA, discovered dark holes in space, followed string theory, complexity theories and other mathematical calculations right on down to nanoscience which is really more understood than seen

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