Is everything relative or is there an absoulte truth?

To the person who thinks that good people who really believe's that if your a good person, you'll get into heaven, I have a question for you. Are you a good person? Why did Jesus say, that He was the way, the truth and the Life, no one comes unto the Father except by Him? Why is the Bible the only the religion that has 10,385 prophacies that have either all come to pass or are coming to pass? Only one other religion has prophacy and Mohamad is not coming to rule Mecca or whatever. So, are you a good person? God's standards are a lot higher than ours. Have you ever lied? Stolen anything, no matter the amount? Ever taken God's name in vain? Ever lusted? If you answered yes to any of these questions, your admitting that your a lying, stealing, blasphemer, who' also guilty of adultry. Are you still good? Not really, none of us are. We're all guildy and the Bible says we are under the wrath of a Holy and just God. Just like a judge can't over look someone's case in court, God has made a day where he will judge the world in righteousness, not on what you believed, how good you were, or your heart's intent b/c the Bible said man's heart is evil. Jesus said to repent which means to change the way you think and put your trust in Him. There is no other way. For all those who say my God wouldn't send me to hell, you've broken the second commandment that you shouldn't create any false idols. You've created a god to suite your sin. Of course your god wouldn't send you to hell b/c he didn't create one. The God who's in the Bible did and He will. He said in 1 Cor. 6:9 to be not decieved. The unrighteous will not enter the Kingdom of God. Fornicator's, idolators, adulterer's will not enter the Kingdom of God.

Many believe that truth is relative—in other words, that what is true to one person may be untrue to another, so that both may be “right.” This belief is so widespread that there is a word for it—“relativism.”

Democritus, hailed as “the greatest of ancient philosophers,” asserted: “Truth is buried deep. . . . We know nothing for certain.” Perhaps the most revered of them all, Socrates, said that all that he really knew was that he knew nothing.

Relativism is not limited to philosophers. It is taught by religious leaders, indoctrinated in schools, and spread by the media. Episcopal bishop John S. Spong said a few years ago: “We must . . . move from thinking we have the truth and others must come to our point of view to the realization that ultimate truth is beyond the grasp of all of us.”

MANY religious organizations claim to have the truth, and they offer it eagerly to others. However, between them they offer a dizzying profusion of “truths.” Is this just another evidence that all truths are relative, that there are no absolute truths? No.

Professor V. R. Ruggiero expresses his surprise that even intelligent people sometimes say that truth is relative. He reasons: “If everyone makes his own truth, then no person’s idea can be better than another’s. All must be equal. And if all ideas are equal, what is the point in researching any subject? Why dig in the ground for answers to archeological questions? Why probe the causes of tension in the Middle East? Why search for a cancer cure? Why explore the galaxy? These activities make sense only if some answers are better than others,

No one really believes that there is no truth. When it comes to physical realities, such as medicine, mathematics, or the laws of physics, even the staunchest relativist will believe that some things are true. Who of us would dare to ride in an airplane if we did not think that the laws of aerodynamics were absolute truths? Verifiable truths do exist; they surround us, and we stake our lives on them.

So let us leave the murky waters of relativism and examine briefly what the Bible describes as the pure waters of truth. (John 4:14; Revelation 22:17) In the Bible, “truth” is not at all like the abstract, intangible concept over which philosophers debate.

When Jesus said that his whole purpose in life was to talk about the truth, he was speaking of something that faithful Jews had valued for centuries. In their sacred writings, the Jews had long read of “truth” as something concrete, not theoretical. In the Bible,

The Jews had good reason for viewing truth in that way. They called their God, Jehovah, “the God of truth.” (Psalm 31:5) This was because everything Jehovah said he would do, he did. When he made promises, he kept them. When he inspired prophecies, they were fulfilled. When he uttered final judgments, they were carried out.

TRUTH IS TRUTH, no one can change it

When it comes to absolute truth, it really depends upon your own personal beliefs. There isn't one perfect way to get to heaven. Jahovah Witnesses believe that the savior child has yet to be born, and there are other religions out there that do not believe that Christ was the messiah. Christianity is a religion that was created by the basis of what Christ lived and taught us. Before Christ, many people believed that there was a way to enter into heaven. If you look into history of biblical days, you will even hear a story of the tower of babel. This tower was built in order to reach heaven. Hence years later, there was a popular song title "stairway to heaven" based upon that tower. When "GOD" heard about the tower being built he struck it down and everyone began to speak in tongues.

Truly believing is powerful enough to allow a person into the gates of Heaven. Leading a good life, obeying the laws of the religion that you believe in, and just believing that there is a power out there that is higher than anything on this earth will be good enough to earn anyone a spot in heaven.

So to answer your question, yes that is a huge contradiction. It all depends on how you feel and what you believe in.

TRUTH is fact that is real. Things are not TRUE simple because a person feels or hope or believes that they are TRUE. Their beliefs and hopes however were not in harmony with fact. Therefore, People do not create TRUTH; they reach out to comprehend it.

Truth that is examined means, to make comparisons, calmly and objectively weighing the facts and the arguments presented, and then being willing to pay the cost; For the truth will cost something. (See counseled at Proverbs 23:23)

The road that leads to Truth: If you were on the wrong road, would pride or stubbornness prevent you from admitting it?There cannot be two sets of truth when one does not agree with the other. One or the other is true, but not both. Sincerely believing something, and practicing that belief, will not make it right if it really is wrong. How should you feel if proof is given that what you believe is wrong?

To illustrate: Say you were in a car, traveling for the first time to a certain place. You have a road map, but you have not taken time to check it carefully. Someone has told you the road to take. You trust him, sincerely believing that the way he has directed you is correct. But suppose it is not. What if someone points out the error? What if he, by referring to your own map, shows that you are on the wrong road? Would Pride or stubbornness prevent you from admitting that you are on the wrong road? Well, then, if you learn from an examination of the Bible that you are traveling a wrong religious road, would you be willing to change by avoiding the broad road to destruction, to get one the nation road to life?

Similarly with all these religions of this world. Could they all be right? Especially when they give contradictory instructions as to way leads to eternal Life.

The truth is that there is one way (road), One God, One Religion, One TRUTH: if we really wish to surrender ourselves to God we have to settle in our mind an important problem regarding religion.

1). Is it God’s will that there are so many religions in the world?

2). And, is he content to see people trying to worship him in many different organisations with different beliefs, religious rituals and even different moral standards?

God is a God of harmony But the different religions of mankind are not in harmony with each other. They fight one another, persecute one another, and contradict one another.

“God is the author of peace, not of disorder.”- 1 Corinthians 14:33, as translated by Monsignor Knox

To achieve spiritual enlightenment, we must pursue the way of TRUTH, the way that is found only in God’s word, The Bible. The Bible is the only true source of knowledge upon which man can base a hope for the future … Nothing can, but an understanding and appreciation of the word of God can lead man into the right way and unfold to him visions of the blessings that are to come

There is only one way to Heaven and that is through our lord and savior Jesus Christ. For he said "None shall come to the father but through me."

They are not contradictions unless a Christian is saying that there are other way's to heaven besides christieanity (If a christian says that then there wrong). They are other religions (just as I did) that say there way is the only true way or the people that have no religion that do not know enough to say with cerenty which, if any or all, is the way to heaven.

There is an absolute truth. But there is no forced requirement for you to believe it. Everyone is responsible for their own soul. The best you can do is research the possibilities and decide for yourself which one is it. Christians say you only have one shot. Hindus say you can afford to be wrong once in a while. Logically, which makes more sense to follow this time around?

Yes it's a contradiction.

Christianity and Islam are monotheistic and if you believe either then you have to believe that it is the only true way. Hinduism is polytheistic and some Hindus incorporate Jesus and Mohammad into their religion as a possible way.

In idea no because each and every thing we do is relative to at least some thing or some different person. Are we extremely free from life or some thing else there is not any genuine freedom we'd want to paintings with the intention to have a first rate life. we'd want to obey the guidelines of the land etc. the purely component that i believe in that is completely the fact is the Bible. nice philosophy question took me back to my days in extreme college and faculty.

This thinking was my reason to write my study "Do All Roads Lead to God?" http://tinyurl.com/rkuqy

Truth is like a compass when you are traveling to Hawaii. If you take a relative view of the compass direction, you can be off by just two degrees and miss the small islands by hundreds of miles--and perish. Follow the compass with absolute thinking, and you will make your destination with no problems--and you will live in paradise.

Just because Christianity says that it is the truth doesn't make it so.

Heaven is not some place out there you go when you die, it's a state of mind.