What is Truth and Does It M
atter?
A recent Barna Research Group survey on what Americans believe asked the question, "Is there absolute
Truth?" Sixty
-
six percent of adults responded that they believe that "there is no such thing as absolute
truth; differen
t people can define truth in conflicting ways and still be correct." Seventy
-
two percent of
those aged 18 to 25 expressed this belief. In a recent series of more than twenty interviews conducted at
random at a large university, people were asked if there w
as such a thing as absolute truth
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truth that is
true across all times and cultures for all people. All but one respondent answered along these lines:
"Truth is whatever you believe."
"There is no absolute truth."
"If there
were
such a thing as absolute
truth, how could we know what it is?"
"People who believe in absolute truth are dangerous."
The lone exception was an evangelical Christian, who said absolute truth was in Jesus Christ.
