Thursday, October 05, 2006
the Truth of Postmodernism
Truth is not relative it is relevant, not meaning that we are creating our own truth, but we are tapping into the Truth and interpreting it subjectively through out own thoughts and minds. We are perceiving the Truth and we are describing that Truth in a different way that is relevant to us, a certain aspect of the Gospel may stand out to me and move me and allow me to enter into more intense communion with Christ, but for you it does nothing, this does not mean that this is not true for you or that I have found some secret, it simply means that you tap into that truth and discover different aspects of what is True that we as subjective individuals relate to and aspects that are relevant to our lives. I do not know the truth objectively in and of itself, rather I know the objective only through my subjective experience with it and to it, thus the Truth that I encounter I encounter subjectively thus I do not doubt that there is objective Truth, however, neither do I doubt that two theologians can look at a particular problems and come to different conclusions, but neither am I willing to say that one of the other is wrong in a total sense. Seeing that in the particular case their view lines up with the biblical text and theology in an overview or at least in the ballpark of the Christian understanding of Jesus and his scraficial life death and ressurection, if there are not blatant heresies then in the case of two individual Christians coming to distinctly different conclusions I am not willing to say that one or the other is wrong in totality, they are merely subjectively perceiving an objective unchanging truth in the abstract that becomes tangible and human, when the objective becomes human it is not relative as many would have us think, but rather it is relevant and transform-atory especially when it comes to the Gospel to that subjective individual. Thus that tapping into the truth many only be effective to them, however it is not created truth for oneself it is a different aspect of the objective through the subjective.
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