Christian Doctrines

Truth, and What to Do With It  Collin Leong.  January 13, 2017 What is Truth? “What is Truth?”, asks Pontious Pilate to Jesus. It would have taken days for Jesus to answer that and to convince Pilate, but Jesus had an appointment with the cross that morning. Many people, like the highly educated Pilate, are confused about truth. How do you tell what is true? Is truth absolute, or is truth relative to your personal situation and circumstances?  Truth Distorted There are two major trends today that had never happened before in history. First, there is an overwhelming source of information, of which most are unreliable. You may be familiar with this relatively new sarcasm: “If it’s on the Internet, it must be true.”  The more opinions you read, the more likely you will stray away from the centre of truth.  This applies to “Christian” websites as well. There is so much mis-appropriation and mis-application of "biblical" teachings that one must be very careful to che...

The Truth about Truth Collin Leong. Jan 8, 2017   What is Truth? “What is Truth?”, asks Pontious Pilate to Jesus. It would have taken days for Jesus to answer that and to convince Pilate, but Jesus had an appointment with the cross that morning. Many people, like the highly educated Pilate, are confused about truth. How do you tell what is true? Is truth absolute, or is truth relative to your personal situation and circumstances?  To some, a statement is true only if it corresponds to reality that they can verify (Correspondence Theory of Truth). For example, “the sky is blue” is a reality that can be verified. The problem is that reality itself can be questioned – what does "blue" mean, and what kind of blue? Deep blue? Azure? Indigo? And what about realities that cannot be verified, such as historical events or moral values?  Other people think that a proposition is true only if it is supported by multiple coherent observations that provides evidence to the claim (Coher...