20 November 2024
Truth trumps facts. This is the core reality that makes procedural crime dramas so popular today. At the beginning of an episode the audience is presented with some facts which seem to point in one direction. But as more facts are presented, we see a clearer picture which reveals someone else committed the crime.
Facts can vary by perspective. Two witnesses can faithfully recount what they observed and even seemingly contradict one another. Yet there may well be some overarching scenario which removes the false contradiction.
But truth is different from facts in that truth simply is. The true version of what actually happened is true regardless of how it was perceived by the people who were present.
It’s the misdirection of perception that enables magicians to do their tricks. Invariably the facts we perceive are not what magicians are really doing. But the facts we see, our faulty perceptions, don’t change what is true.
Truth trumps facts.
So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
— 2 Corinthians 4:18 (HCSB)
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