Tuesday, September 19, 2006

"What is truth?" Pilate asked almost 2000 years ago. The question is still being asked today. What follows is a good definition.

"Truth is propositional, and only propositional. Truth is a property,characteristic,or attribute only of propositions. A proposition is the meaning of a declarative sentence.( An example of a declarative sentence would be The Gospel of John Chapter 3:16.) Rhetorical questions, obstenisbly interrogative sentences,are funcionally declarative sentences. This view is in stark contrast to views both academic and popular as truth as encounter, event, experiential, emotive, or personal. That truth is personal, not propositional has led theologians to substitute the nebulous concepts of 'commitment', 'personal relationship', and 'union' for the clear and Biblical concept of belief."
~The Trinity Review 2/2005