Probably all of us will admit that something can only be true if it can be proved to correspond with the facts. But determining the truth of a situation is not always easy. The physical senses and our own personal sense of events and our surroundings report what seem to be facts to us. Yet because these are based on human perceptions, which may be faulty, they may not be facts at all!
Even our educational systems teach us a worldview that isn't fully reliable because it tends to be materialistically oriented and changeable. In order to remove this uncertainty and the tinge of abstraction from the search for the facts, society has coined the term "relative truth." For example, when conflicting statements by witnesses make a legal judgment difficult, juries are asked to determine truth "beyond a reasonable doubt" in order to reach a decision. But the fundamental question regarding the absolute nature of truth remains open. Is it impossible, then, to answer it? Pilate seemed to think it was.
Despite the challenge posed by the varying perceptions of truth, the unsatisfied yearning for an absolute knowledge of truth has remained alive throughout the centuries. And a satisfactory answer has finally come with the discovery of Christian Science by Mrs. Eddy.
