If you ask a Christian where truth can be found, you will most certainly hear that truth is found in Christianity. And they would be correct in saying so, but if you asked them again if Christianity was the truth, they would say yes to that question too. But how can that be?
It is one thing for something to contain the truth, and quite an other thing for it to be the truth. Just as space allows light to travel from the sun to the earth without being light itself, so does Christianity allow the truth to travel from God to us without being the truth itself.
If Christianity was the truth, there would have to be several truths, for there are several kinds of Christianity. Plato recognized the fallacy of relativity wherefore he rejected the belief that what is right to an individual is the truth, for if every person has his or her own truth, how can philosophy exist? Why search for that which is right before one's own eyes: one's opinion.
When opinions become the truth, the ones who hold the opinions become themselves gods, with the task of forcing everyone else to agree. When the opinion-holders consider themselves Christians, their version of Christianity becomes the truth all must accept - even God.
Truth cannot be squeezed into a mold that is smaller than itself. Because humans are a mixture of truth and lies, good and evil, we will continue to create versions of truth. The wise recognize this and allow truth to remain with God, and God to be the truth.
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