Have you ever heard a scientist or atheist argue that the truth was something other than God?

Have you ever heard a religious person argue that every word of their bible or sacred text is true (the word of God) and applicable to the modern person?

I've had the privilege of working in both camps for the entirety of my career. I work as a sales leader in human genetics and cancer diagnostics and I have served as a church leader and planter. I'm uniquely qualified to address this issue.

The problem is presuppositional. (It has to do with what is assumed to be true)

So long as the scientist is arguing against an invisible, empirically immeasurable being located "up there" somewhere, then the truth will be the opposite of intangibles. That presupposition will prohibit the scientist from accepting non-physical realities as TRUE. That creates an illogical feedback loop because truth is bigger than empiricism. They end up believing there is only matter and motion, yet they believe there is such a thing as love when it comes to their families and friends.

So long as the religious person is arguing against any questioning or established interpretation of their bible or sacred text, then the truth will only be what they believe is on the pages of their books or the voices of their leaders. Those words are often in direct opposition to what the world knows to be proven facts. This presuppostion will prohibit them from re-examining their interpretation, thus they too create in illogical feedback loop that becomes untenable for modern people.

If we are all honest, we all presuppose we have the truth.  This is not a fault, but a necessary function of the truth. It has to do with the fact that no life can exist apart from the truth. (sounds theological huh?) You see the disagreement is always in the details, but never in the function of the truth. Function is measurable even if it is not empirically measurable. (think mathematics here). There is no coincidence that truth and God function in the same way.

The word truth and the word for God are very diluted terms in our world. As a result we tend to jettison them both to the arena of personal preference. Thus making truth and God relative to the individual.

In my book "OBLIVIOUS" I argue for a wider understanding where we appreciate that we all have different and important experiences with the truth, while none of us ever possess all of it. This creates a need for each other in order to ask the right questions, and thus possess greater experiences with the truth.  The net result is that we engage in life in both empirical and spiritual capacities, without diminishing either.

This makes us all partial believers in the truth. It places us all on the same level and it places us all on the same journey. I believe the only path forward for any of us is to come to terms with both our physical and spiritual capacities as true, and pursue and apply this truth as best as we are able. Everything else is a religious (even in the scientific world) construct that we have created to enshrine our limited experiences of truth, We must strive to free ourselves from such systems.

It's as simple as that.

It's as hard as that.