Tag: truth

Truth is essential. We need it for all decisions: what and how to buy, where and when to travel, whom to date, whom to elect.

Unfortunately, we live in an era where truth is all too difficult to find (and all the more difficult to find singular truth).

Pope's statement will upset those who think God demands obedience to rules.

So I became a defender of biblical inerrancy, the belief that the Bible is completely true. By true, I mean accurate, a word carrying connotations of history, science, factual and physical observation, and impartiality. In my mind back then, there might’ve been a little room for poetic language, but I saw myth, fairy tale and realistic fiction labels as excuses not to take the Bible seriously and, therefore, out of the question.

Join SpokaneFāVS at 10 a.m., today for a Coffee Talk discussion on "The Nature of Truth."

Thinking thusly, “truth” is never “truth” and is never certain nor, conversely, something completely relative only to the idea and metaphorical formulation of a solitary and isolated mind.

This column first appeared in 2015.  By Nicholas Damascus "Do not dispute over the truth with someone who does not know the truth, but from the...