relative truth.
relativism.
all views are equal.
problems with relative truth.
contradicts.
impossibilities.
absolute truth.
“God is all that ever was and all that will ever be.
God is absolute.”
absolutism.
absolute truth continued.
narrow minded?
truth
knowledge
knowledge
• belief
• true
• justified
knowledge = “justified true belief”
types of knowledge
• i know i am holding an iphone
• i know how to use an iphone
• i know that apple made this iphone
intuition
know-how
propositional
knowledge
sources of justification
• intuition (a priori)
• evidence (a posteriori)
• witness of Holy Spirit
witness of the Holy Spirit
And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the
truth. . . . If we receive the testimony of men, the
testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of
God that he has borne witness to his Son. He who
believes in the Son of God has the testimony in
himself. He who does not believe God has made him
a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony
that God has borne to his Son
1 John 5:6-10
skepticism
philosophical viewpoint that we can’t know anything
can we know anything with certainty?
refuting skepticism
why think we need certainty?
refuting skepticism
we can know some things with certainty
“cogito ergo sum”
(i think, therefore i am)
Rene Descartes
refuting skepticism
not the way we really live
relevance.
schools.
diversity.
no matter what.
questions?