What is truth? Can it
be defined as your belief? If it is
supposed to be a known fact about a subject or concept, then how can belief be
truth? How can faith in something be
attributed as a truth? Faith is still
the belief that something is
truth. Hope, as is faith, is a desire
for something you believe to be truth.
There is no absolute truth in religion. If there were then
that would mean that one of them is right and the rest of them are totally and
completely wrong. And for all of you “Analyticals” out there, science is in the same boat. Since you can only prove what you can prove,
there is no absolute until you can prove what you currently cannot prove. And since you do not know what that is…oh
well.
I find myself constantly at odds with what I know and what I
believe. I even have to keep reminding
myself that just because I do not necessarily believe something does not mean
that it is not true. It is only not true for me. And that being only for the moment that I do
not believe it.
Think about it. No matter
how much knowledge and information we have at this very moment, it is infinitely
less than what we will have in ten years, or even, in some cases, ten minutes. And while it is accepted that truth and
knowledge build upon that which we already know…imagine the possibility that at
some point in the future, in order to move forward, you have to throw it all
away and bow to a greater, and extremely different, perception of truth.
You believe what you believe, as we all do, but how much of
it is truth and how much of it is Faith?
And is faith the same for someone who has knowledge beyond your
own? A teacher has knowledge of a
subject and the student has only faith…until the knowledge is imparted and then
the student becomes the teacher. But the
TEACHER must always be the STUDENT. Because Truth changes with Understanding and
Understanding changes with Knowledge.
It is good to believe in something, because a belief can
determine how you live and what you can achieve in this life. And Truth?
It should always be pursued though it is perpetually elusive. The hard part is to go past your learning and
establish new behaviors to complement the truths.
Truth changes with understanding...and understanding changes with application of the truth. We cannot eliminate that step. Knowing something, and not applying that knowledge, is the same as not knowing.
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