[Blackwatch]

The question about absolute truth is the essential question in the Post modern delimma. Post modern coming from the notion that we are living now in an era that has come after the modern era (positivism and enlightenment , scientific inquiry was the way to truth) which came after the classical era (where the church-state had the key to absolute truth). The post modern era states what your friend states, that even if there is an absolute truth, it is impossible to know because human beings' way of knowing is clouded by language and culture. In other words, our way of knowing is always subjective, therefore how can we know objective (or absolute) truth? I posed a very similar question to my Sunday school class at church. I think what the post modernists miss is the way of knowing that is objective, the creator's relationship to creation. Paul talks about this somewhat in Romans 1 and Jesus touches on this specifically in John 14. If Jesus represents the way, the truth, and the life, then we see that some way absolute truth has encountered humanity. Can we know absolute truth fully? I think it is impossible. But I do think that we can grasp at a very important aspect of that truth; Love. This is what Jesus wanted us to grasp from the truth. If we Love, then the truth of our existence becomes clear enough for us to embace eternity with certainty.

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