Sunday, July 22, 2007

I'm afraid you need to distinguish between belief and truth. You see 'There's no life on other planets' is unverified. Yet, there are some who hold this as truth. Therefore for them it is 'truth', but as long as it is unverified we can't say it is 'truth', it's what we call their 'belief'.

'God is almighty' is different from the above case. This statement cannot be verified. So for those who believe God is almighty, it's truth. It might be merely their 'belief', though, we have nothing for it but to admit it's truth. At the same time, 'God is almighty.' is false, especially for non-believers.On the other hands, 'God exists' is just a belief. I mean it's not truth. Likewise 'God doesn't exist' is also a belief. It's not truth either.

I am sure.

Truth must be admitted by believers and non-believers as well. You see, everyone can admit that God is almighty. Everyone can agree that God is almighty if God exists. There's a difference between belief and truth. If an opinion, a view, an accepted fact were false, even for those who believe in that opinion, it would still remain to be their belief, not truth, try using in your word.

'The earth is flat' was not a false, let alone their belief. It's a fact based on their experience. This was a truth in their scope of activity. Only after we start travelling around the glove, it turned to be false only later and still 'the earth is flat' is very true in our limited scope of our daily activities.

Our "truths" change as we make progress in science, medicine, space exploration and so on.

Very true.

The truths, held onto as short a time as 50 years ago, are truths in a limited conditions. And, in their limited ways, some of these "truths" were verified by yesterday's standards.

I changed a bit and very true.

Some opinions cannot and will not ever be verified. To those holding them, they will still be true.

Very true.

God is almighty, either truth or false, but not belief. God exists/doesn't exist, both are beliefs, neither truth nor false. The earth is flat, the sun revolves around the earth, etc are still true. Life exists other than the earth, is belief, neither truth nor false.

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