TRUTH vs FACT what’s the difference?

May 18, 2022

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Can you have facts but still not have truth?

Truth vs Facts… What’s the difference?

First of all, you can obey truth. You can’t obey a fact. Truth is that cosmic flow through the facts that you’re trying to discover. You’re trying to discover how a given fact that you’ve come up against fits into the big picture. Your looking for the dynamic behind it. Remember, the universe is not a static equilibrium, it’s a dynamic equilibrium. There’s a flow through that fact that connects it to everything else. And you can follow that flow. You can obey that truth.

So the big issue that’s been in play in science, especially for the last 100 years, is a retrogressive movement away from truth. You find that you can discover facts. Then you delight in connecting those facts. (connecting the dots) You can always create an “understanding.” However, you can associate those facts points with your ability to rationalize. So how do we stay true and not rationalize but find the flow?

But how do you know if that particular way of connecting the dots is true? Because there’s many ways that you can connect the dots. You can rationalize anything. You can always connect dots; you can always connect them in a lot of ways. How do you know what the correct way is? How do you know which understanding is a true understanding? Which understanding conforms with the cosmos?

In that context, the revelators are trying to get us to rediscover the word cosmos that the Greeks coined—the true meaning of it. Because we need to rediscover why the Greeks coined that. Why did they coin a word that means both harmony and universe equally? So that intensively it means universal harmony, and extensively it means harmonious universe?

It means much more than just universe, especially in the sense that we use that word today, in a very simplistic way. The Greeks were taking the audacious assumption that there was a universal harmony that they could attempt to discover and strike step with. It’s not just a collection of atoms that you might simplistically call a universe in the modern sense of that word. It’s more in the true sense of the word universe, as “one turning.” It’s a dynamic flow about a central nucleus of truth.

So this unraveling that’s been occurring for 100 years in science needs some assistance. And that’s why the Revelators spend as much time as they do trying to give us what we need to bring a true understanding back to scientific facts. Because you need that. Not just for the sake of science, but for the sake of religion and philosophy and everything else. It’s impossible to have a true religion without a true science and vice versa. You need something that is in full conformity to the cosmos, that reflects its full character.

Physical facts are fairly uniform, but truth is a living and flexible factor in the philosophy of the universe. Evolving personalities are only partially wise and relatively true in their communications. They can be certain only as far as their personal experience extends. That which apparently may be wholly true in one place may be only relatively true in another segment of creation.
The Urantia Book 2:7.2

We call lying ‘not telling the truth’. But truth is something different than whether you are lying or not. Lying is about fact, truth is transcendent of such things. Now, you can’t have truth without facts. It’s difficult for us to finally figure out what that word ‘truth’ refers to. Truth is not knowledge. It’s not a knowingness that can be given. No computer can give you an assessment of whether something is ‘truth’ or not. It must be recognized by an individual.