GLMX #181: You Can Handle the Truth!

In the iconic courtroom scene from the movie "A Few Good Men", Colonel Nathan Jessup, played masterfully by Jack Nicholson, tells his cross-examiner Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (played by Tom Cruise), "YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" That line has gone down in film history as one of the most famous lines ever delivered. 

At different times in our lives, each of us have been or will be searching for the truth about something --- Not only for the the truth in legal matters, but the truth in family matters, the truth in job matters, the truth in educational matters, and the truth about our past. We all want to know the truth as to why things happened the way they did and the truth about how things turned out the way they did. We also want to know the truth about our future so that we can make the right decisions and take the right steps. 

Perhaps, the most important area in which we seek the truth is in spiritual matters -- or what some would call metaphysics. Great philosophers and thinkers of the past, such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Anselm, Descartes, John Milton, Immanuel Kant, and others, spent much of their lives struggling with these questions. They wanted to know: What is truth? What is the truth about human origins? How did we get here? What is our purpose? Where do we go when we die?