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Truth: absolute or conditional?
Is truth absolute or conditional?
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Is truth absolute or conditional?

Mathematics, beginning with the numerical equation 1+1=2, is an irrefutable truth. It has been said that the universe can be defined mathematically. Because of mathematics we know there is a certain precise order to the universe.
From the understanding of the fact that we know 1+1=2, we know we have the ability to think logically. We are able to reason and come to a rational conclusion based on facts rather than emotion. But this ability to reason logically only gives us the method we use; it does not give us the abstracts of ‘why’ and ‘what if’ in order to get the answer, or the need to find it.
Our motivation to question the order of things does not come logically, it comes emotionally. It is this emotional motivation that drives the human mind toward what we call intelligence. It is the process by which we desire to look into the unknown for the unending questions and answers it possesses. No other form of life or manmade device can have this degree of motivation because only the human mind has the ability and the need to further develop itself. As an example, we can develop a computer to tell us how a conclusion is made but we will never be able to develop one that has the need to ask itself questions that will enable it to find new answers. Curiosity in the abstract, and the intelligence derived from it, is found in the animal world but they don’t have the motivation to develop themselves beyond their basic needs of trying to survive.
Wisdom is using facts and questions to find the perfect answer because it’s motivated by a need to do so. The universe is in perfect order because of the wisdom of its perfection that needs to be that way. Before you can have order to form the perfect answer to (1+1) you have to need the perfect answer or there is no order (1+1=2) and the question won’t exist.
You can’t get something from nothing. Wisdom cannot be formed without wisdom. An atom, molecule or cell cannot create wisdom from nothing, but their existence and usefulness reveal the results of wisdom. Therefore, because wisdom exists, wisdom has always existed. It is eternal; without beginning or end.
Wisdom can only be manifested if a mind ‘needs’ it to be. Therefore, you need an eternal mind to manifest eternal wisdom. This is one part of absolute truth.

We know and can experience the emotions of hate, joy, sorrow, fear, remorse, depression, peace, contentment, agitation, anger, and worry, etc. Above all else we know and experience love. Love is a unique human emotion because happiness is a human emotion. Love makes us happy only when we see it is making someone else happy, first. Because of its unselfish nature, love has to be given it is not a static emotion. We can’t love without giving it. Love for us motivates us to love others.
Love could not have evolved into what it is, (nor our other emotions). Other non human life forms will by instinct care for and nurture their young but they don’t have the emotions or the need to do anything else other than to survive.
Humans will, and have, sacrificed their life for the happiness or well being of others, even strangers. In the animal kingdom this can’t happen because an animal’s first instinct is to survive.
Like wisdom, love could not from nothing. An atom, molecule or cell cannot create love from nothing, but their existence and movement reveals the presence of love. Love exists because it always existed, it is eternal.
Only a mind capable of loving can give love. Therefore you need an eternal mind to manifest eternal love. This is the second part of absolute truth.

The universe is comprised of energy and the effects of that energy. We know that energy creates matter and the movement of matter creates more energy. This has been an ongoing cycle from the formation of our universe.
We know that in order for an atom to interact with another atom, there has to be a sufficient force to cause this interaction.
Science tells us the energy in the universe is a constant. The law of thermodynamics says energy deteriorates over time. There has to be a force to keep this energy constant. The energy that was needed to create the universe and the energy that sustains it has to remain greater than the total energy used.
The energy that formed the first atoms in the universe had to be there before that action. Out of nothing, nothing comes. Energy does not come from nothing; therefore, it has always existed. Energy is eternal.
Energy in a bottle is static. Without a use for energy it would stay in one big bubble somewhere. We know that the energy bringing atoms together forms a useful purpose, i.e. to produce energy and matter. Since there is some purpose in causing these atoms to come together, we can conclude there is also reason and wisdom in this movement because there is perfection in the result. Reason and wisdom require a mind and energy requires an outlet. Therefore there is an eternal mind that is powered by an eternal power. Since they are both eternal they occupy the same space. This is the third part of absolute truth.
We can conclude, by the law of cause and effect, the power that brings an atom (with it’s inherit complexity that we are just beginning to understand) into existence and the power and wisdom that brings atoms together to form the universe that we live in, and that life has an instinct to survive, and that humanity can know and use this power and wisdom, are effects of an eternal mind. Furthermore, the energy and wisdom of the universe are worthless unless there is also a purpose for it to exist. Since the universe is here as a benefit to us, we must say there is also providence guiding and sustaining it. We can know this, because the emotions (previously mentioned) we are born with, especially love; not only give us a greater appreciation of the life we have, but also the certain dreams and expectations of what life could be. Life is worth living because of them.  This could not be if the universe didn’t first provide and support this life. This providence that we’ve been made aware of is an effect of an eternal mind.
The cause or infinite power that created, sustains and directs the universe and crafted this perfection with infinite love has to be greater than the effects found in the universe.  Eternal power, eternal wisdom and eternal love occupy the same space because of their eternity. This space exhibits the characteristics only found in a living, thinking mind. We call this mind the Father of the universe. Infinity cannot create infinity; therefore, this Father could not have been created.
This is the absolute truth that all other truths derive from. You can’t take anything from eternal nor can you add to it, therefore, it cannot be conditional.
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