WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Truth Subjective or Objective?
People have been making claims about the nature of truth pretty much since the beginning. And over the eons, there have been an awful lot of confused people who weren’t sure whether truth even exists. Remember Pilate’s question to Jesus?
Such confusion is especially tragic because the truth is, truth is not simply whatever happens to be true to any particular individual at any given time. If that were the case, then the answer to Pilate’s question would be: “A myth.” Subjectivism is a false god.
Cold-Case Christianity’s J. Warner Wallace, speaking in the Colson Center’s latest “What Would You Say?” video, offers three solid reasons why subjectivism is inadequate as a tool for understanding reality: