Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth
Ephesians 6:14a
Yesterday as Patrina and I headed out of town I noticed a taco food truck with the following quote from Scripture, “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6)
Some have said Jesus’ claim on truth is exclusive. It is, isn’t it?
Now, consider and contrast these quotes-
“From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion.”
The Dalai Lama
“If there is no absolute beyond man’s ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.”
Francis Schaeffer
In the quotes above we read two very different views on Absolute Truth. Is it possible that both are correct? Many people today would say yes. Many would say that truth is relative, yet most people in the end do hold to an absolute right or wrong in at least some cases.
C.S. Lewis
“Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God’s myth where the others are men’s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call ‘real things’.”
This is the essence of the Law of Non-Contradiction. Two opposing “truths” can not by definition be true. In terms of faith, Atheism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity all make exclusive claims to be true. Is it possible for all to false? An objective answer is yes. Can they all be true? Absolutely not.
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