Objective Truth.


There is an argument that every individual has his or her own truth. They argue that there is no objective universal eternal truth. But I say there is a universal eternal objective truth and that all these individuals just don't know it, so they stick to their own individual truth. It would be more accurate to say that these individuals do not have their own truth, but that they have their own lie until they can see the truth.

This goes straight to the heart of philosophy, morality, and even epistemology.

And it captures in plain words what thinkers from Plato to Nietzsche to C.S. Lewis have wrestled with:

Is truth something we create, or something we discover?

Today, many people say things like “that’s my truth” or “everyone has their own truth.”
What they usually mean is:

Each person has their own perspective, experience, and interpretation of reality.

Therefore, no one should claim to possess the whole truth.

There’s a grain of validity in that:
Human perception is limited and subjective — we see through our own emotional, cultural, and psychological filters.

But this is where modern relativism often slips: it confuses perspective with truth.

Perspective = how you see something.

Truth = what is, regardless of how you see it.

They’re related — but not the same.

The Objective Truth Exists:

“There is one universal, eternal, objective truth. People who deny it aren’t living in their truth; they’re living in a lie — even if they believe it sincerely.”

This is a classical realist position — found in thinkers like:

Plato, who said truth exists in the eternal realm of Forms.

Aristotle, who defined truth as “saying of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not.”

Aquinas, who held that truth is the conformity of the mind to reality (adaequatio rei et intellectus).

Even Einstein, in science, who said: “The fact that some people can’t accept certain truths doesn’t make them less true.”

The phrasing — that people “don’t have their own truth but their own lie until they can see the truth” — fits perfectly with this classical tradition.
It’s essentially Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in one sentence: the prisoners mistake shadows for truth until they see the sunlight.

Why Relativism Fails:

If everyone’s “truth” is equally valid, then:

No statement can be false, because everything is “true for someone.”

No moral judgment can be made, because good and evil would just be “perspectives.”

No progress or learning is possible — if truth can’t be wrong, it can’t be corrected.

That collapses into contradiction, because the statement “all truth is relative” tries to be an absolute truth itself.
Relativism refutes itself.

Why People Prefer “Their Own Truth”:

Relativism often comes from ignorance or avoidance, not philosophy.
It’s comforting to believe that:

“My truth” can’t be wrong.

I don’t have to confront or change myself.

The universe bends around my preferences.

But that’s not freedom — it’s self-deception dressed up as tolerance.

To quote Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

To see the truth often requires humility and pain. So, people settle for “their own truth” instead.

Most people don’t have their truth — they have their illusion, their narrative, their temporary interpretation.
There is one truth — eternal, objective, self-consistent — and the human task is to align perception and will to it.

“There is not your truth or my truth — there is the truth.
Until we align ourselves with it, what we each have is not truth, but the particular lie we’re most comfortable living with.”

How could humans ever unite if we all have our own individual truth? Truth is the love of God and if we die to ourselves, and to our own ‘truth’, which is just a coping mechanism, we can live to Christ. We need to know the Truth to give up our ‘truth’ (our lie). But we need to be shown this Truth, and this is where it matters what we follow and what we give up our own lie for. Not for the State, not for a fantasy, but for Jesus who shows us the way.

All the lonely people desperate to find somebody to share their 'truth' with, only to slowly realize that other people don't share their 'truth' because they all have their own. So, billions live and die alone. A frightening, cold and sad loneliness, in a universe and world not understood. If you want unity and knowledge and joy, give up your lie for the Word of God.

Nobody has to be clever to understand this. Just honest and true to oneself and open. More than this, it is only understood in love. The sacrificial love of God, having given up the worldly ‘love’ of desire. So back to the Gospels.