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| 09/15/2007 3:09 PM |
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Most people think fact when they want truth.
But truth itself is spiritual. You are factual. So is every person and thing.
In order to distinguish truth from fact, think of it this way. Truth can be known and fact can be experienced. What you see and what you know are very different. Seeing is surface recognition. What is behind, under, or beyond the thing seen cannot be seen but may be known. What you don't know, you can assume for most purposes. Of course one can be deceived by what is seen and led to believe that there is more when there is not. Movies are perfect examples of the manipulation of what is seen partially to imply a much larger scene and substance.
A fact can be understood in a context such that it could be either true or false. Truth cannot be false. There is no such thing as false truth. There is also no false fact, all facts are true. But, for every fact, it could be easily understood as not true. Truth cannot be considered true or false. If any statement is false it is true that it is false, and if it is true, it is true that it is true. Thus Truth is always true. Truth about a statement is that it is either true or not true. It cannot be false that it it is either true or not true. A factual statement can be true or false, but a truth statement cannot be false.
A proper tautalogy deals with truth and certainty, while propositions deal with acts and facts. Truth is spiritual.
That brings me to Truth as the highest of all concepts. Nothing can be believed unless it is true. If you are led to believe what is not true, you are deceived. That is easy when dealing with acts and facts. But, when dealing with truth, you should never be deceived. I do not know everything, but all I know is true. That is because, if I believe something to be true, but it is not, I do not know it, though I may believe. I cannot know what I do not believe, but I can believe what I do not know.
Nothing exists or happens that does not require Truth. If God exists, it must be true that God exists, thus Truth. If God does not exist (atheistic), it must be true that God does not exist, thus Truth. Truth exists even if God does not. But if God exists and is higher than anything else or any concept, Truth must be God. Thus Truth is God and God is Truth. Truth is higher than anything else and identified as God, a truely spiritual being.
When it is written that, "In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth." the beginning is not a physical beginning, but a conceptual starting point for belief. God exists in all time. So does Truth. Even if nothing else exists, Truth exists, for it would be true that nothing else exists. Thus, God existed before the Creation and will exist after all is gone. The beginning is not a time, but a concept -- a starting point for reason. That is much like infinity. You cannot reach infinity, nor count to infinity, but you can use the concept for actual thinking. You cannot see Truth, nor God, but you can reason about Truth and God. You cannot take three away from three donkeys, but you can use three as often and as many times as you need to represent three of anything. Likewise, you cannot take Truth away from any act or fact, but you can use Truth as often and as many times as you need to justify anything. Truth never wears out, and Truth never goes away. Even the liar depends upon Truth to lie. If it were not for Truth, there would be no liar.
You cannot take Truth away from God or God away from Truth, but you can believe in God and Truth. Some claim to be atheists, but nobody claims to be athruthist.
The possibility of a person who is you, is from Truth, and existed in all time. What you are as a person, is fact, and you are what you are.
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