Truth exists for minds and minds know truth. This means that truth is superior to human minds. Human minds are mutable. Beliefs may vary from one person to the next, but truth does not.
To quote Nash:
If truth and the human mind were equal, truth could not be eternal and immutable since the human mind is finite, mutable, and subject to error. Therefore, truth must transcend human reason; truth must be superior to any individual human mind as well as to the sum total of human minds. From this it follows, that there must be a mind higher than the human mind in which truth resides. (Nash, p.163)
If a truth, a proposition, or a thought were some physical motion in the brain, no two persons could have the same thought. A physical motion is a fleeting event numerically distinct from every other. If one may think the same thought twice, truth must be mental or spiritual. (Clark, A Christian View of Men and Things, pp. 319-320.)
God determines what is true and what is false. For God is not a liar, He is not a man that could lie, nor the son of man that He changes His mind. In Him, there is no variation neither shadow of turning. (Numbers 23.19; James 1.17)
Truth exists. Any attempt to deny the existence of truth is false and self-defeating. Skepticism is false for if it is true that there is no knowledge, then the proposition that there is no knowledge is false because the skeptic claims to know that there is no knowledge. If there is knowledge, then truth as the object of knowledge exists.
In sum, truth consists of the propositions that God thinks. These propositions are the thoughts of an eternal, immutable, sovereign Mind. As such, God's mind thinks according to the laws of logic, for God is not insane. Logic is the structure of God's supreme, infallible thinking and reason.
In knowing God's thoughts, we know something of God's nature for God's Mind is God. There is a sense in which all knowledge is a knowledge of God. Moreover, as we think God's thoughts after Him, we have a vision of God's nature. (Nash, pp. 161-164)
Therefore, when humans know truth, human beings also know something of God's nature.
What then can it mean when a witness takes the oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Does a witness thereby become the source of truth in response to questions by attorneys and judges? A witness who takes the oath is a witness to truth not the source of it. As a faithful witness to truth, he thereby rejects falsehoods. He has vowed to avoid all lies and lying as he responds to inquiries concerning knowledge of events and persons.
As such, man becomes what he thinks for as a person thinks so is he. When he thinks truth as a witness to the Truth, he speaks truth in accordance with the oath of a faithful witness. Nevertheless, a witness who knows truth may choose to suppress it in unrighteousness. This means that a witness may also ignore it, pretend it does not exist, or define it as whatever works to suit his desires, or achieve some desired end. Nevertheless, no creature has the power to determine truth over and against God who declares unequivocally, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life.' (John 14.6 NKJV)
Truth has meaning. Its definition as immutable, eternal, universal propositions in the Mind of God is true. God Almighty is the origin and source of all propositional truth. The Creator God, not Man the creature, determines all propositional truth.
The God of Truth did not create things then give them meaning. Meaning and Truth are prior, uncreated, eternal reasons for all things and all creatures. The whole creation constitutes the denotation and connotation of the eternal reasons, God's meanings and truths. (O LORD God of truth. Psalm 31.5b. NKJV)
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*James M. Boice. What is Truth? Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, 1716 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
Ronald H. Nash. Faith and Reasoning, ©1988 Ronald Nash, Academie Books, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI 49530, pp. 161-164.
Gordon H. Clark. A Christian View of Men and Things, ©1980, E. C. George & L. Zeller, 2nd Ed., 1991, The Trinity Foundation, P.O. Box 68, Unicoi, TN 37692. Pp. 319-320.