The answer is 42
Objective truth is absolute, but our ability to perceive truth is subjective because many things can affect ones’ ability to perceive that truth.
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Cut to the chase on one of them, though - I believe in God because He told me to.
“What is ultimate reality to you? ... Do you believe in God?”
These are profiling questions.
Just saying.
Good thing, you you may get the Zot Treatment.
I believe in God for a number of reasons, here are just a couple.
I have been so close to being killed or dying a number of times in my life (car accidents, heart surgery, out of control infections, hospitalized for pneumonia, explosions, being shot at, etc). Surviving those seemingly impossible situations with little or no damage has led me to believe that I am being looked after by God who has camped his angles about me.
I also hold patents in cryptography and as a result of dealing with incredibly large numbers, I understand that random could not possibly account for the DNA code complexity. The code requires the guiding hand of God.
It is hard to beat a sharp cheddar.
“...I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts; there is a God, and, I’m not Him.”
Red, no BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUE!!!
A good Napa chardonnay goes well with ripe pears and an aged Stilton.
Thou Shalt Not Kill! ...too many.
I believe in two realities.
The external reality of physical matter where truth is absolute... water will wet you, fire will burn.
And an internal reality of me and my perceptions of the external.
The battle is to perceive absolute truth through the filter of subjective thoughts and emotions and not delude myself or allow others to delude me.
The existence of an eterna creator God who reveals Himself through both nature and scripture is the primary absolute truth.
If you have faith no explanation is necessary. If you do not, no explanation is possible.
Take Pascal’s wager.
“I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages. (God of God) light of light, true God of true God. Begotten not made, consubstantial to the Father, by whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven. And was incarnate of the Holy Ghost and of the Virgin Mary and was made man; was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered and was buried; and the third day rose again according to the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, and shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, of whose Kingdom there shall be no end. And (I believe) in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father (and the Son), who together with the Father and the Son is to be adored and glorified, who spoke by the Prophets. And one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. We confess (I confess) one baptism for the remission of sins. And we look for (I look for) the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.”
The Viking Kitties.
The answer is: “IBTZ”.
It is philosophy, there are no right or wrong answers.