TRUTH
- David Redding
- Nov 25, 2025
- 1 min read
Truth is a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality
To transcend is to go beyond the ordinary limits of human knowledge and experience. To behold truth is to gaze upon something outside of man’s creative capacity. We do not create truth, we receive it. It is outside of us, beyond us, yet bestowed upon us by that which created us. Man is free to have his own beliefs, but he cannot create his own truth. It is not optional—it comes as standard equipment to the human model.
Truth is fundamental to understanding our existence. Liberty—to be free from oppressive restriction—is a fundamental truth that is self-evident and self-proving. A child intuitively understands liberty without his parents teaching him what it is. Rather, he needs instruction upon its limits to learn that some restrictions are necessary for his own protection or to keep him from infringing upon the liberty of others in the enjoyment of his own. This comes in the form of wisdom, which is not self-evident but is the practical application of that which is.
Truth is un-malleable and timeless. It exists today as it has ever been and ever will be. Something cannot be true today if it was not true yesterday. Something that is true today cannot become untrue tomorrow. It is beyond time yet always weaved into us because it transcends us.
Truth is a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality
I think it's only a very narrow definition of truth to say that it's timeless. Lots of things can be true one day and false the next. But if you're specifically referencing eternal and absolute truths, the challenge will always be that you can't validate something as true if the criteria is that it has to be ALWAYS true. We will never know that. And what most people call absolute truth is really just a strongly held opinion.