Is there an absolute truth in religion?
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Answer: Of course\nDo you think God would put you on a planet where none were right? Especially if you like Him?? Same goes that all can't be right thus only one can.\nMost folks don't follow truth B/c I think it actually hurts them to. I think it makes them invent their own "truths" instead.
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At the very core of my faith yes, there are absolutes.\n\nBut faith is an anchor to secure us in a troubled world.\n\nIt should co-exist with science, and yet prevent science from becoming a religion unto itself, because science knows little, and new hypotheses and theories are invented daily.  \n\nPerhaps religion and science should be a system of checks-and-balances, to advance the civilization without falling away from God.\n\nPersonally, I am a Seeker.\n\n\nNamaste.
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The devil can copy anything God can do...except Truth.\nBecause Truth is an ABSOLUTE.\nThere can be only ONE TRUTH to anything.\nIf we say we need oxygen to breathe, or we need water to live, these are absolute truths.\nWe live on planet Earth and need the moon and sun to survive as a world.\nThis is an absolute truth.\nBut if you tell me (of a truth), that your name is Sam Green, and you were born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1973, then that's an abolsute truth...but if i then turn around and tell the next person that your name is Sam Green, you were born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1974, then it's no longer the truth.\nEven though everything i said was true, except one tiny detail.\nThis is the way with Satan.\nHe will give you 99.9% Truth...but he always adds or takes away even just that one tiny detail.\nThis is why the Word says that these Last Days would be so decpetive, that it could decieve the very Elect (of God), if it were possible.\nBut it's not possible to decieve God's Elect (His End-Time Bride, aka, the Wise Virgins), because we stand on the ABSOLUTE TRUTH of His' Word.\nThere can be only ONE TRUTH.\nJesus said it would be, in these Last Days, as it was in the Days of Noah.\nWell, who had the Truth in Noah's Day?\nAMOS 3:7\nMALACHI 4:5,6\nMATTHEW 17:11\nLUKE 17\nREVELATION 10:7\n\nJOHN 4:23,24\n   23    But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.\n   24    God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.\n \nMATTHEW 7:7\n    Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:\n\nJOHN 8:32\n    And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.\n \nI JOHN 3:19\n    And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.\n \nI JOHN 4:6\n    We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.\n \nGod bless you, as you seek His' Truth.
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Wow, if anyone really had the answer to this, they would win the Nobel Peace Prize, because we could settle the issue of truth once and for all.  The people who are wrong would have to admit, "oh...so THAT'S the truth", and the world's problems would be solved.\n\nNot everything can be truth.  Truth, by definition, must be an absolute, because anying that is different from truth, is by default not true anymore.  For example, if it really is the truth is that Jesus died for our sins, then any ideas that say otherwise cannot also be truth.  Therefore, anyone who says that it is o.k. for everyone to have their own truth also thinks that it is o.k. for a lot of people to be walking around deluded by lies.  \n\nWhy do people care so much about the truth???  There definitely seems to be something inside of us that longs to know the truth, or else there would not be people fighting over this.  Is it just an evolutionary advantage to want to know the truth?  The way people kill for what they perceive as truth would seem to contradict this.  To understand what "The Truth" actually  is, I think we may first need to find out why we are so driven to find the truth.\n\nI am tempted to say that truth is written on our consciences, and we need to tap into that, but this sounds a little wishy-washy, because obviously the practice of finding out what is inside of us has resulted in a lot of people claiming that contradictory things are all truths.  Islam and Hinduism can't both be true, for example, and I am sure that there are Muslims and Hindus that both believe they have the truth.\n\nWhen it all comes down to it, I think that we have to admit that we have to earnestly seek truth.  This is hard, because our past experiences with our families and cultures may alter this search.  I think that if we examine what people say in different religions, including atheism, with a mind that is both critical and earnestly seeking, then we can elminate things that don't make sense, and eventually find "The Truth'.   If we just accept our religion based on thoughts like "That's what everyone here believes", or "That's the way my parents raised me", or "I'm afraid I'll go to Hell", or "I'm most comfortable here," ; then we really haven't found truth, and our search must continue.  \n\nIf there is a higher being that loves you and cares for you, and you ask this being for guidance to know the truth, and you seriously mean that you want the truth (and not just an affirmation that whatever you were doing before was right), if this being really exists, he WILL help you find the truth.  If he doesn't exist, the search continues....
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That would depend on your definition of truth.\n\nFrom a mathematical point of view, logic can help you derive the truth by reasoning your way into verifiable conclusions.\n\nFrom a religious point of view, logic will not help you in any definitive way since truth in that sense comes from faith, and faith cannot be reasoned. It requires a leap of faith to arrive at the truth.
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I understand what you are asking.  This is why all religions can't be true.  There has to be one religion that is true, and teaches God's will.  Otherwise, your thought experiment becomes true and sin becomes subject to YOUR belief weather its a sin or not.
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True religion is about the truth and finding the truth.  However majority of religion is about distorting and suppressing the truth.
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If something is true then there is only one truth.\nBut there can be many lies.\nIf an object is red, then the truth is "it is red".\nIf I believe that it is red then I believe the truth.\nBut no matter how much I believe it is green that does not make it green. I just believe a lie. So you see any color but red is a lie. So I could believe it to be any number of colors but only one is the truth.\nJust because a person believes something that doesn't make it real. It is important to find the truth and believe that only. See New Testament book of John 14:6. \nRegarding faith see Hebrews 11:1. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."\nMay God Bless You in your search for the truth
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Most religions have been begun a one fallible man...Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Ron L Hubbard, etc.  Therefore, the tenets are from the minds of many fallible men, respectively.  Therefore, the world is full of many fallible religions.\n\nSo then what IS truth?  What is the standard?  Who defines morality?
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I have to agree with you. I have argued with my mother in law on countless occasions about this. Everyone believes in something. I do believe there is a superior existence , I do not, however follow any specific religion. In any religion there is always some kind higher existence. There is no TRUE fact proven (in any religion) on what and or who is right. I find people tend to quote things from the bible but don't actually know what they're talking about. And to those who believe that everyone should have a faith, I do. I believe there is something, or someone who will show us our true religion, everyone, as a whole. I apologize if I have offended anyone. That was not my intention.
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There is absolute truth. \n\nIt would be irrational for a person to state "there is no absolute truth" (because the person would be claiming to be stating an absolute truth that there is no absolute truth).\n\n:)\n\nSome truths are Absolute (like the existence of God, the existence of the Universe etc). \n\nThere could be other truths (e.g., subjective preferences) that could change with time and may therefore not be absolute (in the sense of unvarying and eternal, or universally binding). \n\nE.g., a person says "I like pink" and two years later she changes her mind and says "I like purple". Each statement was/ is true at the time the person made the statement. However with time that truth (as a statement of subjective preference) has changed.\n\nCordially,\nJohn\nhttp://www.GodSci.org\n[God and Science]
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If you believe that Islam is spoken of in the Holy Bible, then it only points to one truth, that the Holy Bible is true. I just am not sure that it is about Islam that is being spoken of.\n\nIf the Bible is true and the Qur'an is true as you claim, then there are already two truths. All believe that there is one God so then why are there two truths?\n\nJust asking?
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truth wins\nwhere is truth?
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What Is the Truth?\nAt John 17:3 Jesus is praying to his father, and He says "you are the only true God."  He spoke the truth.\n\nSo let us leave the murky waters of relativism and examine briefly what the Bible describes as the pure waters of truth. (John 4:14; Revelation 22:17) In the Bible, “truth” is not at all like the abstract, intangible concept over which philosophers debate.\n\nWhen Jesus said that his whole purpose in life was to talk about the truth, he was speaking of something that faithful Jews had valued for centuries. In their sacred writings, the Jews had long read of “truth” as something concrete, not theoretical. In the Bible, “truth” translates the Hebrew word “’emeth′,” which signifies that which is firm, solid, and, perhaps most of all, reliable.\n\nMANY religious organizations claim to have the truth, and they offer it eagerly to others. However, between them they offer a dizzying profusion of “truths.” Is this just another evidence that all truths are relative, that there are no absolute truths? No.\n\nIn his book The Art of Thinking, Professor V. R. Ruggiero expresses his surprise that even intelligent people sometimes say that truth is relative. He reasons: “If everyone makes his own truth, then no person’s idea can be better than another’s. All must be equal. And if all ideas are equal, what is the point in researching any subject? Why dig in the ground for answers to archeological questions? Why probe the causes of tension in the Middle East? Why search for a cancer cure? Why explore the galaxy? These activities make sense only if some answers are better than others, if truth is something separate from, and unaffected by, individual perspectives.”\n\nIn fact, no one really believes that there is no truth. When it comes to physical realities, such as medicine, mathematics, or the laws of physics, even the staunchest relativist will believe that some things are true. Who of us would dare to ride in an airplane if we did not think that the laws of aerodynamics were absolute truths? Verifiable truths do exist; they surround us, and we stake our lives on them.\n\nTruth is Truth, you cannot change it
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Even though your question is more philosophy than science, it is too interesting to resist the temptation to answer (and it is important when debating issues of science versus religious beliefs, for example).\n\nThe ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth knowable by man.\n\nTruth is what you choose to consider truth as a result of personal experience or perception (which can be mistaken), or by believing other people's experience and perceptions (which can also be mistaken, or occasionally misleading).  So truth is just what works for you for what your purposes in life are.  If you are a monk or a person for whom the most important part of life is religion, the ultimate truth is of course God and His manifestations.  If you are a scientist, the ultimate truth is constantly changing, except for a few things in math :-)
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I am sure you are talking about christians.\n\nChristianity is not the only truth, there are many other religions int he universe\n\nBe spiritual.... and stop judging others is the best way
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Christianity is a walk in truth, and truth would be truth anyway.