What is Truth, What is Morality, Is Our Existence Meaningless?

[johnunningman39]

Here are some questions to toss around and serious replies please.

What is Truth? How would we know what is true? Is Truth known by everyone? What is the difference between facts and truth? Is our existence dependent on truth? Is our existence meaningful outside of our own existence, or is God the one who gives meaning to our existence?

 

[trophyhunters]

With one simple word, love.

 

[FightingFat]

Here are some questions to toss around and serious replies please.

What is Truth?

Truth is that which is incontrovertable fact.

How would we know what is true?

It has been revealed to us by God.

Is Truth known by everyone?

No. Many live in darkness and crave the light!

What is the difference between facts and truth?

I would imagine you are alluding to a modern, empirical epitemology?

Is our existence dependent on truth? Is our existence meaningful outside of our own existence, or is God the one who gives meaning to our existence?

I don’t know if we could be seperated from a thirst for truth, it is part of who and what we are to hunger and thirst for justice, for what is right. We are made for God and so without Him we are dead and lost.

 

[Ted_in_Charlott]

What is Truth? God

How would we know what is true? He tells us through his Church

Is Truth known by everyone? Available yes, known no

What is the difference between facts and truth? Facts are supporting evidence to truth

Is our existence dependent on truth? God is truth so yes

Is our existence meaningful outside of our own existence, or is God the one who gives meaning to our existence? God gives us meaning

 

[KingAlfred]

Here are some questions to toss around and serious replies please.

What is Truth? How would we know what is true? Is Truth known by everyone? What is the difference between facts and truth? Is our existence dependent on truth? Is our existence meaningful outside of our own existence, or is God the one who gives meaning to our existence?

Not to be smug or flippant, but all these questions are answered in depth, very convincingly, very eloquently, in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, one of the greatest pieces of literature and theology ever written.

 

[johnunningman39]

Not to be smug or flippant, but all these questions are answered in depth, very convincingly, very eloquently, in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, one of the greatest pieces of literature and theology ever written.

Yes I know King Alfred but as if a quasi-unsure and probably incompetent atheist asked those questions, like an Existentialist? It is easy to say read "mere Christianity, the Bible, the Catechism but it does not really explain our existence to an Atheist.

 

[Oakleaf]

Didn’t somebody say, “Seek and You Shall Find”? If someone is genuinely looking for answers to existential questions, they will be satisfied. Perhaps not in the form or fashion they imagined. Life is the greatest textbook, after all

 

[tobias]

What is Truth?

That which cannot change.

How would we know what is true?

Acknowledging that which cannot change’

Is Truth known by everyone?

Known, yes. Understood and accepted, no.

What is the difference between facts and truth?

Facts are the who, what, why, where, when and how of truth.

Is our existence dependent on truth?

If we would cease to exist the truth that we did exist remains.

Is our existence meaningful outside of our own existence, or is God the one who gives meaning to our existence?

Apart from THE immutable one there would be no meaning and no existence. All truths are dependant upon immutability, for to be a truth, something needs to be constant.

I existed yesterday. Today, it is a truth that I existed on Sep. 24 2008 by the reckoning of time I kept. This is not changeable. My existence today is dependant on the truth of my existence yesterday. If this truth could change, so could my existence.

We could go a step further. Whatever has happened in time cannot be changed by what is happening or will happen. Even if time were to change how it functions reverting back to its inception, the truth that I existed on sep. 24 2008 by the reckoning of time I kept before time changed would still remain.

There has to be an immutability (or immutable one) that keeps truth from changing. If not, what would keep truth from inverting on itself, or one truth from nullifying another? If merely natural law, what xould possibly be said to force it to be constant.