Posted: Feb 25, 2012 2:51 pm
stalidon wrote:John P. M. wrote:I'm a bit slow today (late night last night), so: Where does an existence of God come into the picture here? Yes, I'm aware of the title of the thread, but apart from that - how is 'God' tied explicitly (and exclusively?) to 'absolute truths'?
Once you have an omniscient god, you have an absolute authority in matters of truth. Which in itself doesn't mean, of course, that the interpretations of His Holy Word by believers are absolute truths. But it 'exists' out there, and He has it.
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Your response doesn't answer the question. The question was not 'how is absolute truth tied to god', but 'how is god tied to absolute truth'. These are two very different questions. Certainly, if an omniscient deity exists, then it could be argued that this means that absolute truth exists, but the reverse proposition is not necessarily true, namely that absolute truth cannot exist without god.
Moreover, I provided an example of an absolute truth. Your response to that had nothing to do with the proposition, because logical absolutes are not tied to physical laws, although they certainly inform them. The LNC is an example of something that is objectively true, independent of the existence of mind, thus it cannot be relative, and it certainly couldn't have been different in the past.