What is Truth?

How can we identify truth?  Is it easily recognizable?  Is truth relevant...what is true for me may not be true for you?


If truth is irrelevant, then how can it be...TRUTH?


What...is...truth?


Truth is conformity with fact or reality; verity.  Truth is a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle or the like.


Truth must then be coherent.  It must make sense reasonably and logically.


"What is truth?  Let me answer straightforwardly.  In the biblical view, truth is that which is ultimately, finally, and absolutely REAL, or the 'way it is', and therefore is utterly trustworthy and dependable, being grounded and anchored in God's own reality and truthfulness.  But, this stress on the personal foundation of truth is not--as in postmodernism--at the expense of the preposition.  Both accuracy and authenticity are important to truth.


"Belief in something doesn't make it true; only TRUTH makes a belief true."


-- Os Guinness




Truth by nature is:


1.    Noncontradictory.  It does not violate the basic laws of logic.
2.    Absolute.  It does not depend upon any time, place, or condition.
3.    Discovered.  It exists independently of our minds; we do not create it.
4.    Descriptive.  It is the agreement of the mind with reality (coherence).
5.    Inescapable.  To deny its existence is to affirm it.
6.    Unchanging.  It is the firm standard by which truth claims are measured.