We all say we like truth. What is Truth? One definition says, “Truth is knowledge of things as they are, as they were, and as they are yet to be.” So, truth is knowledge of reality, past, present or future. The complication is, that each of us must interpret information for ourselves.
How can we confirm something as truth? In our physical world, two or more empirical evidences of the same information or same experiment are usually accepted as sufficient to verify it as truth. In spiritual matters, Christian doctrine states that human reason can be confirmed as true by praying to God, and a positive response of peace and reassurance verifies it as safe to believe.
How we interpret “truth” depends mostly on our personal education/experience in life to that moment, including our cultural lifestyle and beliefs.
Consider this comparison:
1) While an older-aged Jewish Priest was performing sacred rituals, an angel named Gabriel appeared, and said the priest’s aging wife, Elizabeth, would conceive and bear them a son, to be named John.
2) Six months later, the same angel, Gabriel appeared and told an unmarried virgin cousin of Elizabeth that she, Mary, would also conceive and bear a Son, who would have no mortal sire, ...
