What is truth?

"What is truth?" Pontius Pilate
         This question has been asked and stated in many ways. What is truth? Can we even know truth? There is no absolute truth.That last one is my favorite. It is an absolute statement denying the validity of its own accusation.  It is a popular one though. So, is there absolute truth?
         The simple answer is yes. The word absolute means: Free from imperfection; complete; perfect. The word Truth means: the true or actual state of a matter; conformity with fact or reality. So by definition there is absolute truth. If you read this blog completely then you have completely read it. If you never read it then you have not read it. That is absolutely true.
         People who claim they believe there is no truth are being dishonest. They live their whole life depending on truth and yet want to deny its validity. If there was no truth then nothing could be proven.  Our whole legal and financial system would collapse. No one lives as if they believed there is no truth. So to say you believe there is no truth is not just a problem of self contradiction. It's a problem of logical dishonesty.
         Some say there is truth. However, it is relative to culture or individuals and is not unequivocal. This again is fallacious. It is dishonest for any person to claim they actually believe this. If anyone was to claim they truly believed this they would then, if being consistent to their belief, think that the murder of an infant child is not always wrong. After all, if truth is relative then that which is wrong for you is not necessarily wrong for someone else. Again, No one lives their life as if they truly believed this.
         Pontius Pilate asked the very question “What is truth?”. The truth of the matter is not that he didn't find his answer because his answer found him. In John 18:38 Pilate asks Jesus this question and it doesn’t matter if you have the King James version, NIV, Message or the Amplified Bible in all versions one thing rings true. Pilate met his answer but did not receive him. Not only was Pilate asking “what is truth?” but he was asking the one who is the personification of truth itself. He stood face to face with the creator of the universe, the one who gives truth its validity and he chose not to receive it. 
        What is truth? To ask this question is to ask what is God? To say there is no absolute truth is to say there is no God. I know those are some huge accusations but I don’t make them lightly or without substance. It is very clear from reading scripture that Jesus came in truth, for truth and is in fact the truth. "I am the way and the truth and the life." John 14:6 My prayer is that we would not miss it. Because if you miss the answer you're really missing the person. #ThinkAboutIt
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away." Matthew 24:35