Two thousand years before Stephen Colbert, Pontius Pilate asked Jesus perhaps the ultimate question: “What is truth?” Jesus had been brought to Pilate because, as the Roman governor, only he had the authority to order Jesus’ execution. Pilate didn’t know what to do with this political hot potato. He ended up having a conversation with Jesus and asked him just what kind of king Jesus was claiming to be. After all, it was dangerous, and perhaps a little bit loony, for someone to call himself a king under the nose of Caesar, especially a man standing in shackles in front of a Roman governor. Jesus said to Pilate: “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me. ”This prompted Pilate, perhaps a cynical politician, to reply with his timeless question, “What is truth?” …show more content…
Many more seem to be asking the question that comes before that question, “Is there any such thing as truth?” This is not a book on philosophy, so I won’t endeavor to make the lengthy philosophical argument required to fully answer this question. Rather, I will just appeal to your common sense. Of course there is truth. How can you make the statement “There is no such thing as truth” and then assert that your statement is true? It is virtually impossible to live our lives at all unless we make some assumptions about what is true and what is false, what is right and what is wrong. Most of us live our lives based on our understanding that some things are true and good and other things are false and