I'm spending a lot of time on flickr these days. You see, with the Fishbowl, we have new content seven days a week and, with each piece of content, there is at least one image. While some authors provide them, most don't, so that means I have to go on a flickr quest to find something that works (link her for a bit on how we do this and hold to copyright laws).
So, yesterday I was looking at results from a search and I found this image from TLA8:
The title given to the photograph is, "believe those who seek the truth. doubt those who find it."
I think the quote provides a beautiful illustration as to what most people mean when they talk about things, like truth, being relative. While the standard Christian attitude is that these people don't believe in truth at all, and therefore they set up an erroneous strawman enemy that they can beat the tar out of, the real doubt is in any one person or groups ability to have an absolute understanding of truth. In other words, most people see truth as being something that is too big for us to be able to wrap up in a nice little box. Thus, trust people who seek to understand something far bigger than themselves, but doubt those who claim they have mastered the absolute.
I think there is wisdom here for Christians, after all, God is other and, while he has revealed what he wants us to know about himself in the Bible, there are many things that remain hidden (Deuteronomy 29:29).
To know things absolutely is to lack faith absolutely. Only those who doubt can have true faith.
That's very deep, Saint. I like it, it really hits home for a lot of people.