My first blog is going to be about truth, this is because of a recent conversation I had about faith. Following this conversation I started thinking about the nature of truth and whether or not it is absolute or relative.
I believe that truth is absolute because it would be a very strange concept if it was seen as changeable or dependable. I think that there are some things that are absolute truths, they are infinite and not dependent upon our perceptions or interactions with the world.
I believe as a Christian that there are truths about God that are in essence absolutely true. For example Gods existence and his nature, these are not dependent upon our knowledge or belief, they are true no matter what. Another example is morality, there are some things which are simply right or wrong. As a whole I am a very open minded person, and non-judgmental in my attitude combined with this I also believe that there are some things which are just true.
Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that we perceive the world through world pictures
such as: Science, Religion and Culture. Science is one way of interpreting the world, and Religion is another. Our own personal world pictures can be seen as relative, different for each individual and affected differently by culture, religion, science etc. I agree with Wittgenstein in so far as to say that we perceive the world through a world picture (which may relative), but I think that there are truths that there are absolute and therefore not dependant upon our perceptions of them and also not effected by our actions.
