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I am a Christian, but I seek to learn about other religions.

Wombat

Wombat

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IsmailaGodHasHeard said:
I am a Christian, but I seek to learn about other religions. All I want is the truth.
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I am a Baha'i, I also seek to learn about other religions, they are my/our common human heritage...a vast and valuable treasure.

I seek/desire no ones conversion...rather unity in diversity.

These things I hold to be 'true'.-

We are One People inhabiting One Planet...our diverse faiths hold so much at core in common that there is only One Faith...The Golden Rule is the central teaching thereof.

I wish you well and pray that you become the best Christian you can be...actively seeking to learn about other religions is to be well on the way to that end.

All the best.
 
Mata

Mata

Insert Witty Title Here
IsmailaGodHasHeard said:
I am a Christian, but I seek to learn about other religions. All I want is the truth.
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Good luck :clap2:

One thing I can say from personal experience is that learning about other religious paths have put my own into massive perspective, and enriched my outlook. Even when I am feeling rather agnostic, the knowledge of such a major part of human heritage and history is pretty darn cool. :beach:
 
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Awoon

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Otherright said:
That's what I'm asking. Truth is bound by perspective. There aren't many things that can be said to be absolutely true, especially once perspective changes, or a lateralus is introduced.
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Your words are unknowing to me. Is that Truth?
 
Otherright

Otherright

Otherright
Awoon said:
Your words are unknowing to me. Is that Truth?
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From your perspective it is. From mine it isn't. Your perspective is your truth. Mine is mine. Truth is not something that is written in stone. My truth will change over time, so will yours.
 
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Awoon

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Otherright said:
From your perspective it is. From mine it isn't. Your perspective is your truth. Mine is mine. Truth is not something that is written in stone. My truth will change over time, so will yours.
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Today is not tomorrow. Truth?

Tomorrow never comes. Truth?
 
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Protester

Active Member
Awoon said:
Truth? What is truth?
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We could look at some dictionaries! -- especially some older ones!
TRUTH:

Truth /Truth/ (?), n.; pl. Truths (#). [OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. treów?. See True; cf. Troth, Betroth.] 1. The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
(b) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork. Mortimer.
(c) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
Alas! they had been friends in youth,
But whispering tongues can poison truth. Coleridge.
(d) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
If this will not suffice, it must appear
That malice bears down truth. Shak.
2. That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor. Zech. viii. 16.
I long to know the truth here of at large. Shak.
The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. Coleridge.
3. A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.
Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. 2 Cor. vii. 14.
4. Righteousness; true religion.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John i. 17.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. John xvii. 17.
In truth, in reality; in fact. -- Of a truth, in reality; certainly. -- To do truth, to practice what God commands.
He that doeth truth cometh to the light. John iii. 21.
Truth /Truth/, v. t. To assert as true; to declare. [R.]
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. Ford. --Webster's 1913 Dictionary
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But to really get down to the most important truth:

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.---Scripture Quotations Taken from the NASB

As the Barnes Commentary put it so well,
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The truth. The source of truth, or he who originates and communicates truth for the salvation of men. Truth is a representation of things as they are. The life, the purity, and the teaching of Jesus Christ was the most complete and perfect representation of the things of the eternal world that has been or can be presented to man. The ceremonies of the Jews were shadows; the life of Jesus was the truth. The opinions of men are fancy, but the doctrines of Jesus were nothing more than a representation of facts as they exist in the government of God. It is implied in this, also, that Jesus was the fountain of all truth; that by his inspiration the prophets spoke, and that by him all truth is communicated to men. Jn 1:17. . . .

Now, see, Awoon, you're question was easily answered no matter what philosophers think!:cool:
 
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