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To: reasonisfaith

The absolute truth I’m speaking of is not mathematical/logical in nature.

Except for the part about needing to be discovered, I agree that...’Truth is not ours to define in our imaginations—it is external to us, to be discovered and observed’...I just happen to believe that this truth is different for each of us, as God planned. To me this is reflected in our belief in self-evidential truths.

This truth I speak of, is absolute only to the individual. When applied to more than one individual, it becomes a reference. This reference, is what defines the relative.


74 posted on 03/16/2012 7:47:43 PM PDT by stuartcr ("In this election year of 12, how deep into their closets will we delve?")
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To: stuartcr

For a truth to be self-evident means that it is true in itself, and needs no external verification by either things or individuals.

Can you give me an example or two of truths that are different for each of us, and what exactly you mean by “it becomes a reference?”


75 posted on 03/17/2012 5:52:40 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Or, more accurately---reason serves faith. See W.L. Craig, R. Zacharias, Erwin Lutzer, and others.)
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