It’s fiddler-crab season!
You don’t want to hear the truth any more? Why the heck not?
Tell us the truth, don’t link to it.
Unconvincing in the extreme and doesn’t answer the point.
God created the world with both good and evil. He didn’t have to do that, yet he did. So, it is God’s responsibility there is evil in the world. That’s Czarcasm’s point.
That’s entirely aside from whether or not people choose to do evil, which is a different (unasked) point you chose to address instead of answering Czarcasm’s actual point.
Start with facts, not truth. The “truth” is too much a subjective experience, especially when religion is involved.
But one personal “truth”: I dislike being spammed with the same website, especially when it is unusually devoid of sound reasoning.
By the way did you know that the Hebrew Name of this great apostles means
Yahweh is Merciful?
Okie
Give us your best argument that it is the truth.
Cite(that isn’t the original one in the OP)?
Sure. Anyway stop with the constant linking. People who have been here for a while will tell you that repeating the same thing over and over and over does not convince people that it’s the truth.
Are you Christian?
Okie
Does that effect your answer?
Does my religion have any bearing on the truth?
Oh, and putting text in the title boxes is just weird.
Well, you certainly think you know. Can you do the implication?
Get thee behind me, Okie.
Voyager - never have been a Christian, never will be a Christian.
Did you know that my name means “Son of the wise man crooked nose village?”
I thought it meant one thousandths of an r.
I always thought he had a little pirate in him.
For what it’s worth, Okie’s oft-mentioned cite spells out the following: “the whole world is deceived … the Holy Scriptures say that Satan has not just deceived a few; they say that she has deceived the whole world.” Oklahoma is presumably included.
If jesus was replaced by some guy called spag bol you would probably be worshiping the flying spaghetti monster right now.
There actually is a (minor) debate among philosophers over the nature of truth.
The conventional reasoning is that there actually is a truth, and that we can come close to it, approaching it asymptotically. Science is the usual technique. We keep trying things, and eliminate those things which aren’t true. There may always be a margin of uncertainty, but the idea is that there really is a truth.
The minority view is that there might not be such a thing. The truth might not be out there. It might be fuzzy and elusive, as the location of particles in quantum physics. It might be self-contradictory. Our cognitive tools – our reason – might simply be insufficient to the task of defining it.
It isn’t one of the major burning issues of the day…
Going along with what Trinopus is saying, here’s an introduction to the philosophical discussion about truth from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Truth (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Warning: not light reading.