If one wants a philosophical definition of "truth" prepare to spend hours and hours reading theories, facts and hypotheses. However, there must be a simple definition of truth since wise people discern truth without knowing what philosophers say!
Some are simplistic in their thinking, making idiotic statements such as "The sky is blue." To many that's a fact and as a fact, to them it must be true! However, the sky has all the colors of the rainbow which appears mostly in daytime as blue and white. At night, it appears, due to the lack of illumination, as black. What's more, the blue we see in the daytime, is merely the predominant color remaining after other colors are filtered out by the atmosphere.
Another truth often quoted is 2 + 2 = 4. Does it really? It does in the decimal system, but not in others. In the binary numbering system this is written as: 10 + 10 = 100. You see "truth" is dependent on the frame of reference! 2 + 2 = 4 needs a reference to be truth!
Here are two statements from the Bible:
2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."The first, reduced to mathematics, is 1000 years = 1 day. But we've shown that a frame of reference is required for truth. The "reference point" is "with the Lord". Hence, this statement may not mean 1000 years = 1 day!
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Then, the second, says 1000 years = yesterday. Since yesterday means "times past" from the Hebrew. 1000 years = infinity because time always was! This mathematical definition is complemented by "as a watch in the night". Of course a watch was likely a sun dial, time was without definition in the night. Therefore, from Psalms time is without meaning! Again, the frame of reference is "God's time frame".
It is apparent that in God's time frame, of course preceding the sun, time is meaningless! 1000 years
Why was God able to do that? Let's test Herrin's Theory here:
Psalm 33:6 “By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.”In one word God created the heavens. With one breath God created all the stars. It would appear to me that with the word space was made for the stars and with his breath the stars were sprinkled into the space. It was all done in God's time frame, not one day!
Let's look at science. A black hole is of such mass that even light is a slave to its effects. Any matter of any size which passes nearby gets sucked in and disappears into darkness since light can't escape from its gravity. Suppose then that any mass, even one of us, which passed on the tangent of the gravitational field of a black hole would be propelled in an instant from one place in the cosmos to another. That's called a "worm hole"! It defies time. The "wormhole theory" verifies God's omnipotence. Time is inconsequential under the influence of great forces. Scientists call this force "gravity". God is not a force, but God is greater than the gravity which he created. As gravity makes a mockery of time. God erupts in almighty laughter at time's insignificance!
Then the truth regarding time is that time is not an accurate scale to measure existence. Man looks at time from what we can measure. The measurement error is beyond silly. The truth's veracity is based on whose reference is used.
The most often used definition of truth, and there are many, is "the correspondence theory": "what is believed or said corresponds to the way things actually are".
There is only one way to know "the way things actually are". It's to speak with the One who's been there and done that. Anything else is a measurement (with the great possibility of measurement errors) of the effects of the One who's been there and done that. Do we believe the actual (who is measured) or the measurement? I go with "the actual" since the correspondence theory is defined as "the way things actually are"!
Revelation 22:13 "I am (God) Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."The definition of truth depends on what is believed matching actuality. The only known "truth" is that God was at the beginning of everything and will be there at the end, if there is to be an ending! Something was there in the beginning! Only the object of this passage tells who. Because there are no alternatives, then we must accept this as truth. As such anyone having an hypothesis that something other than God started it all, must be able to prove it. By definition an hypothesis cannot be proved. It can only fail to be disproved. Hence, no one will ever be able to prove that there is no God. Then, what else explains the creation and the insignificance of time? God was there and God did it.
Since he is beyond time, God just "IS" and as such he needs no name, being merely "I AM"! That's as if God is saying "Why do I need a name because I'm so powerful that I have always been?" God saying merely "I AM" reinforces my contention that to God time is of no consequence.
What then is truth in terms of time? From God's reference, God's beginning is the beginning of time and since God always was, time always was. Hence, time had no beginning. It always was! How does one break infinity into increments so as to become a metric? Infinity divided by anything is infinity. Therefore, any time increment developed by men to explain those billions of years just don't mean anything! When they say "billions of years" that increment is without meaning because it's man's feeble attempt to explain an undefinable increment. God laughs!
It should be obvious by now that wise men accept the Almighty's Word over the powerful:
Psalm 119:30 "I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me."Truth is what God says since only he is omniscient. This is having "unlimited knowledge" or as the word suggests "smarter than a scientist"!
For truth to be whatever God says, then not only must God be omniscient, but omnipotent as well. That's the "Almightness" characteristic God has because he has "unlimited power". You see, for his word to be truth, God must be truthful! He not only knows it all, but because he's Almighty, he did it all! In summary, his claim is supernatural, and is explained to the natural world by:
Psalm 119:160 "Thy (God''s) word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever."Therefore, truth is whatever God says. It is unchangeable. It can't be one thing today and another tomorrow! God's truth is relative to him only. Time doesn't matter because truth is absolute. There is a source for his truth. His word being truth means the Bible is truth in that it's the Word of God! God said it. It's truth!
Some claim that science is smarter than God. I'm not sure that science is even "smarter than a fifth-grader" because most children accept that God did it all. Education spends all its time trying to convince the malleable that they are omni-gnostics; that they have "unlimited knowledge". They are merely making a lame attempt at explaining their misconceptions of what God actually did! God's word is actual. What we see matches what's real. Hence, everyone, unless they have a proven alternative, should just look around and see God in everything:
Romans 1:19 "Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:"What's your excuse? Whose truth do you believe? Self-examination reveals the error of the mind and the corruption of the soul.
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