Q13. Do the scriptures contain the absolute truth?
A13. It is up to one to figure it out. Scriptures are nothing else but tools for the human mind to think about and act on finding the absolute truth. They may give clues to it. But, just because something is written in a scripture does not make it the truth. That is true of scriptures of all religions. If there is anything like a word of God, it is not in the scriptures, it is within one’s own capacity to find it. And (if one believes in God) one may find several words of God within.
The world provides several avenues to find the truth. Scriptures, atheists, role models, thought leaders, social service, meditation, science, and umpteen other tools are available to one. It would be a mistake to take any one of them to be a gospel, because each is imperfect, though each may contain aspects of truth in different forms, and hence very useful indeed.
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