What Is Truth?

by Robert L. Goulding

“When Christ said to Pilate “For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have Come into he world–to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice,” Pilate’s response was, famously, “What is truth?”

In the 1600’s French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal said “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. “

In ancient Greece, hundreds of years before Christ, there was a school of rhetoric (training in debate, argument) whose motto was “Let the lesser argument defeat the greater.” In other words, just win; it doesn’t matter who is right or where the truth may lie.

All three of the examples treat truth as real, as a standard to which one would at least give lip service, even if only to subvert it. That seems to no longer be the case today.

Many people today seek not to directly subvert or attack truth so much as to sidestep it. This is done by denying its existence, especially as a standard of reference, and seeking to make the subjective have the same cachet as the objective–which it never can, no matter how people see it….”

(this article is an excerpt from the Jen-Feb 2016 edition of the Sabbath Sentinel)

To read the rest of this article, which starts on page 8, click this link: https://biblesabbath.org/media/TSS_Jan_2016.pdf