What is Truth ?

Perhaps "knowing the truth" is not what we think.
If we do not live like free men, then we haven't known it.
That's why Jesus warned some people that even when He called him "Lord, Lord", He would say to them "I never knew you, evildoers".
That's also why Jesus said that knowing God and knowing Jesus was eternal life.

The problem of many is that they think that "knowing the truth" means "being intellectually right".
That may work for science, but not necessarily for salvation.
In matters related to salvation, knowing God, knowing Christ, knowing the truth, etc has a different meaning. It means a transformative experience that leads us to submit our will to God, keep his commandments, live in love.

  • By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; (1 John 2:3,4)
  • The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John 4:8)

If you're not intellectually right, then you're not right. "Truth" is an intellectual assessment of what is both real and good. There is no defining "good" without a fact first being real.

Anything that isn't real is a lie. Lies can certainly be real but they're fundamentally a contradiction of fact. Evil is also real and tangible but must also conform to the facts of reality.

This particular poster is living in an imaginary realty where there is no clear delineation between evil and good. Evil doesn't care about facts of reality.
 
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