Fr. Mike you said, "A statement that is true if it is in accord with reality." Since God is the Absolute Reality then, anything consistent with God is the Truth.
I saw an exchange in the youtube comments one time on KWS' cover of Please Don't Go. One guy said it was the first version of Please Don't Go, then a second guy said that it wasn't; KC and the Sunshine Band did the first version of it. Well the first guy said ''Well it was the first version for me'' then the second guy said ''reality doesn't work like that.''
So in the case of a lamp that is turned on but the electrical grid is experiencing a brownout, it could be true to say that the lamp is on (there is some modicum of light emitting from the bulb) yet it is also true to say that it's not *really* on, because it is not serving the function of a lamp (i.e. you will harm your vision if you try to read by that amount of light). Determination of Truth value seems to be dependent upon 1)perspective and 2)level of focus. This concept is what the Jain seven-state logic system is based on, and is more functional in describing fractal reality (always rhyming, never exactly repeating)
This video came out at an astoundingly coincidental time in my life right now. I've been 100% certain in my faith for the past 8 years from high school to the end of college, and through the past few weeks, I've started to fight doubts that have never, ever come before me until now. I've been questioning my faith. I don't disagree with the Church on any moralistic matter at all, as they've explained their stances and it all makes sense theologically and rationally, but my doubt comes from the idea that I should be taking what is said long ago or by some that I don't even know as "true", whether its if God's existence, if my prayers mean something, if everything really has objective meaning, or if nothing matters. I don't want to lose my faith. At all. Without God, there's nothing to live for, and people tell me doubts are normal, but I want to go back to having confidence again; I want to go back to looking at the icons of Our Lord and Our Blessed Mother and not feeling guilty or sad, thinking that "maybe there is no God". Please help me, and pray for my eased mind. I want to go back to normal.
You don't have to believe just because "someone said it long ago". The reasons we believe is that the system as a whole is coherent and makes more sense to explain reality than any other system. In order to live our life, we must make a choice regarding which conception of reality we will apply in our life. Even those who don't want to make this choice end up making it by their actions, brecause one's actions are always made according to a certain conception of reality, of what is true or not, good or not. So a good reason to believe in Catholicism is that it is the more coherent belief system there is. If it is the more coherent, then it is probably the true one. Of course we can never reach absolute certainty, we can only have probabilities. But if a system of thought is more coherent than an other one, then it has a higher probability to be true. Atheism does a poor job at explaining morality and metaphysics. It has therefore a lesser probability to be true than theism.
just try to acknowledge the existence of satan, he is real, he is the one planting these seeds in your head right now , dont look at logic or human intelligence because that blocks your heart for god, and its almost like a sense of pride building up too! be simple like a child persevere and pray my friend ... a simple prayer in your own words would be more than enough :) i totally recommend you read The Poem of Man-God by Maria Valtorta
This is a sign that your faith is growing. Your leaving childhood faith behind, and now need to build up your adult faith. As you have said yourself, this is not only perfectly normal, it is a sign of personal development - it's a good thing. Congratulations! What helped me a lot when I had similar doubts was collecting all the times I experienced God's presence in my life earlier. Small miracles, answered prayers, times when I found just the right answer in the Bible. Do you have a spiritual guide? It's also very helpful when you can openly and regularly talk about your spiritual life, including your questions and doubts, with a priest you trust and love. A good priest will not shun you for having doubts; instead, he will help you explore them. Learning more about the Catholic faith in general was something that helped me a lot, too. Reading the Cathecism, learning more about saints, reading religious literature, finding my place within the Church - the Catholic Church is united but multifaceted. Some of us are very traditional, others want to open up to the whole world even if it means abandoning some traditions; some of us are spiritual, others down-to-earth, we have mystical saints, goofy saints, serious saints, happy saints, martyrs, philosophers, hermits, social workers, missionaires... we believe in the same God, the same core teachings, but we all have our unique identities, movements, ideas within the same Church. It helped me immensely to find the way, the community, the spirituality I felt most comfortable with, and for that, I needed to learn a lot. (Just watch out for heresies.) Finally, the idea that helps me the most whenever I'm doubting God is that the twelve apostles experienced and lived through it all first-hand, and each and every one of them (except John) was willing to die a brutal death rather than renounce Jesus. All they needed to do was say "yeah, we will stay quiet; no, Jesus was not God; OK, we will obey the emperor/the Jewish priests/whoever y'all want us to obey." If they had made it up, or if they had been unsure about the truth, at least some of the twelve would have backed off or compromised. Not many are stupid enough to go through torture, public humiliation and execution for something that didn't happen, and all 12 apostles proudly and consequentially proclaimed that Jesus is the Messiah who has risen from the dead. +1: whatever you do, don't stop praying. I'm praying for you! :)
Everyone in this comment section has brought me to tears. I thank you all for the reassurance I needed, and for all of your lives. Christ is King, and my journey is just beginning. I WILL get through this.
@@jennifermcminn4194 I'm curios to ask, what are some "lies" he has told his followers? From what I know, and being a catholic, he has been right about many things and stands for the objective truth that human live begins at conception and that abortion is murder, thanks!!
LOL. Get Papa John's AND Dominos. Objective truth is that you have pizza from two different companies, subjective truth is that you like one more than the other... Pizza always solves confusion in my house 😄😄.
If you ordered pepperoni pizza because that is your truthful preference, and the delivery guy gave you a vegetarian pizza and refuses to refund you for the order because he believes you shouldn't eat meat, then you'll get what Fr. Mike is talking about.
That's right. Just like a crime scene for example, the evidence actually points to a singular set of events. There is only one narrative that is true out of many possible narratives. Facts are true but not 'truths' in of themselves.
Here are some more examples of subjective truth and objective truth: “I think Father Mike is a really cool guy!” Well, this is entirely my opinion, and therefore subjective. You can totally disagree with me. It’s also highly probable that you will agree with me as you may already be a fan of his. Either way, my opinion of Father Mike doesn’t have to be true for you for me to have that opinion. This is the essence of subjectivity. “Father Mike has blue eyes.” This is objectively true. If you didn’t see it watching the video the first time, go look again. Also, whether or not you are even able to see the color of a person’s eyes, it doesn’t affect that person’s eye color at all. A genuinely colorblind person might not know their own eye color, and it doesn’t change their eye color. (There are random, rare, and obscure conditions that can change a person’s eye color. If your eyes ever change color, go find a doctor-you’ll need one.)
@Gaza Gxrl \x/ I respectfully invite you to listen again to what Fr. Mike says. Objective reality is true regardless of whether we know it, like it, feel it, or believe it. We cannot create reality. What you speak of is subjective, and as such, you are the only one who knows, likes, feels, or believes it to he true. Therefore, it is not Truth. So many young people today are buying into lies that separate them from objective truth and communion with the one true God. This breaks my heart.
@@nataliephillips5980I am not contradicting Fr. Mike Schmitz. I agree with him wholeheartedly! Too many people walk around saying "This is my truth", and this is crazy. There is only one Truth, and it is not subjective. (Someone's opinion is just that - an opinion.) Sadly, for the past 10 years or so, I have heard people (my college students) mistakenly interchanging the word(s)/phrase "My opinion" with "My truth", and they are horribly incorrect. (I believe you have misread my comments.)
The truth is what is. Based on that (great) definition, there is neither "one's truth" nor "subjective truth". Those are personal opinions, perceptions, bias and tastes, making "objective truth" nothing more than a pleonasm. But firstly, there is the Truth, Who Is.
For instance..when. The pope tells a little boy and an entire crowd of people you don't have to believe in Christ to go to Heaven..that is not truth... Jesus is the ONLY way to the Father. Not Mary or the Saints or anyone else. Jesus alone..THAT is truth.
Are you talking about a little boy with an atheist father who recently died? Would it have been better that the Pope tell a seven year old child their father is in hell? No one knows where his soul went. It would be incredibly insensitive to suggest to someone grieving their loved one that their loved one is in hell
@@IONov990 we tell the truth. We tell it with kindness and gentleness but we tell the truth. The pope would have known that of he were a Godly man. Proverbs 13:5 The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace. He told millions this heresy. Some of which idolize and hang on to his every word rather than reading the Bible for themselves. Such is the way of the Catholic religion though. Confess in a little box to a little man while neglecting to confess to the Father in Heaven. Call on the deceased such as Saul did. Pay for annulments as if the marriage never even happened so that you can appease the member of the congregation. But that does not erase the marriage. God knows and sees all. There is more heresy spewing out of the RCC and they continue to think of more ways to anger God. He is here and He is coming back and there will be a price to pay.
@@IONov990 although I feel more terrible since it is a child asking and I understand the difficulty of it I have to disagree with your statement of not knowing where he would have gone. As an unbeliever and one who mist likely was not baptized etc we know PERFECTLY well where he has gone
I agree with this video more than any other video that you have made. And more than any other video this video makes the most cogent argument against the existence of god. But first, Schodingler’s Cat would take exception to your argument on the principle of non-contradiction, that a thing can be and not be at the same time, it’s academic to you but life and death to the cat. To your point that god exists or he doesn’t exist based on the principle of non-contradiction. You believe that god exists is an objective truth because you believe, as a Catholic, that god exists. If god exists “all Christians are right”, but if god does not exist all Christians are wrong. So, your “club” swings both ways. Early on in the video you define objective truth as something that “is” independent of “whether I know it, like it or believe it”. This argument to can be phrased differently. An objective truth can be false whether you know it, like it, or believe it. In one of your examples (05:21) someone says it is snowing outside in August. Objectively, it is either snowing or not snowing. Why is, “it’s snowing in August” objectively true? It’s not objectively true because someone told me, it’s objectively true because I can prove it. “Prove it”, the chant that is the bane of all religions. If something exists, you can prove it. If you can’t prove god exists, you can’t say god objectively exists. Therefore, in your own words, god’s existence is a subjective not an objective truth. You believe that god exists because you grew up in a Catholic household. If you had grown up in a Muslim household, you’d be an Imam, in a Buddhist household, a monk, and if you grew up in a Jewish household, you’d be a Rabbi. It’s not about objective truth it’s about subjective perception. The response to “prove it” is almost universally, I have faith that god exists. Using the definition of faith as a “belief that is not based on proof”, belief in god is subjective. I don’t think that the difference between objective and subjective truth is a winning argument for you. All subjective truth is objective to the true believer. The winning argument is whether you like Starbucks or Seattle’s Best. Which ever you like best is objectively true to you. You can argue for your choice’s objectivity. But please, for god’s sake, don’t kill anyone or go to war over it. Also, your definition of mob rule is also called Democracy.
I think it is difficult accept objective truth when it conflicts with my beliefs, opinions, feelings, or preferences. I really like Father Mike Schmitz.
Is this in contrast to positive psychology ? I will put forth a hot button topic and would like to discuss, how do we apply the thinking methods by Fr.Mike in this video to this? Alex is having a discussion with Brian about pre-marital sex and morality. Alex could say that sex before marriage is objectively wrong but Brian could say it is good because it feels good, it bonds the couple together and it is a great stress reliever. The latter is right and wrong but wrong in this context because it is not done in the state of married life. A parallel analogy would be killing someone in cold blood VS killing an enemy in war.
@@josephjackson1956 No such thing as "subjective truth". People are misspeaking when they say, "My truth is ..." To be accurate, they must say is, "My opinion is ...." Truth is absolute and NOT subjective. (Thank you, Fr. Schmitz, for reminding the general public of proper wording.)
Why hasn't the Vatican repented of the Panchamma idol worship that took place at the Vatican OCTOBER 2019? Now we have RCC bishops and priests that don't believe in orthodox Catholic teachings on sexual ethics. I admire you....sad that the RCC is going away from objective truths.
"What is truth?" How is truth determined? "Truth" is: What is? Huh? Hey, 2+2=4 is true. I'm a woman regardless of the "truth" that I am chromosome-ly XY, is FALSE/NOT truth.
There are a lot more options than voting, punching, and walking away... Like drinking our favorite coffees in peace and happiness while chatting over how much we each love coffee. Man I love coffee.
As a firm believer in objective truth, an understander of subjective preferences, and a hater of the misleading sin of moral relativity, I have a few thoughts to add for conversation sake: 1.) In the human, material sense I do believe things cannot be 2 opposing things at one (non-contradiction), but I do want to throw out the reality that Jesus was both fully human and fully God. Now, I don’t say this to prove non-contradiction is wrong with this reality, but to add to the divine mystery of the nature of God. Being the creator of our ability to even come up with the term “non-contradiction” shows us something...something that can be understood by relinquishing the perfect ability to understand the Trinity. What I’m clarifying is that paradox may seem like contradiction, but don’t confuse it with that. Paradox is in fact true and what I believe to be the gateway to Wisdom. Food for thought. On that note, my next point. 2.) The visible doesn’t totally constitute what is real. I believe Chesterton touches on this when he writes about how the most rational men leave space for the irrational-what he was describing is the virtue of humility which is the gateway of faith. To illustrate the same point, but in a more rational approach, let’s think of what a philosopher would say and how an empiricist would respond. A philosopher would say that the world is 99% invisible, invisible meaning, the space in-between everything-the void, space. A scientist would say “yes, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be seen or understood, we just haven’t figured out the means to test it yet.” I’m saying all this because I’ve observed the tendency in American Catholicism, which has sadly become more of a political orientation, to bind to the realities of material objective truth. I would say this is much more of a conservative point of view. Not necessarily wrong, but not necessarily right. On the other hand there are those that prescribe much more to the “invisible” truths as absolutes. Think of the tendency of the left- winged ideologies to glorify emotion over objective, more “material” truths (an example of a fetus not being considered human upon conception because people would rather worship comfort of not having responsibility over the reality that can be proven that a fetus, even in the earliest stage of its existence, is in fact a human being). What I’m getting at is that there is the middle way, the path in-between, where the subjective truth and the objective truths can align, but it takes a soul who seeks wisdom rationale. Wisdom being the attitude “I don’t know so many things because the world is in fact mostly invisible, I am not God, and I am a feeble human,” while rationale is the attitude of “things can be known and I do in-fact know things because I see them right in front of me.” Again, I don’t think the necessarily disprove non-contradiction, but proves paradox to be something to ponder and contemplate. These are my thoughts! Thank you for the video, father.
Thank you Father Mike. Father how do we understand Jesus's statement about Himself when He said I am the Truth. Is it subjective, objective or moral truth? What is moral truth? Thank you. God bless you
Seek the truth of God’s nature to understand Him - His nature of endless love, kindness, patience, selflessness - and truth. As we learn His truths, we are drawn closer to him. Seek the truth. Seek all that is Him. People don’t do this enough. Shun all that is not him such as deception, lies and pride. Be totally truthful with each other. Do not tell partial truths. Do not withhold some truths to someone if you have the opportunity to tell them all truths. If you withhold even some information to somebody that would have helped them, then you have sinned because now they will suffer in some way because of your inaction. In other words; love others then you will want to treat them as you want to be treated yourself. These are God’s laws. To follow them will bring you in good favor of Him.
The truth will ultimately lead to the ultimate, that is divine, good, who is God. If God is not good, or if some fools say there is no god, the only good is only wishful thinking and there is no point in searching for truth, because we have almost no power and authority over everything. Either things lead to God or not, and that is either they lead to the truth of and by Jesus Christ or not, that will tell you the truth. Because we have very very limited understanding and knowledge as humans, we have to believe from what is given and taught from the truth Himself, and He is God who is the divine ultimate good.
There is no such thing as "subjective truth". The truth itself is an objective value. The example given about coffee is not an example of truth, just a matter of opinion.
Again, this is bang on Father Mike! Beautifully explained, and very easy to understand, well put together! It definitely helped me, as I needed to hear this. And it's also comforting, and now I'm a little bit better equipped. May God continue to bless you, Father Mike!
In my prayers this morning, I was asking for clarity around the subject of “your truth” vs “my truth” vs “the truth”. Then this video popped up in my recommended. Thank you Lord and thank you Fr. Mike for making these videos 😇
Papa John's dark roast with anchovies and nutmeg is bad, even if such a product existed. This joke is also objectively bad, even if it were construed as humor. Sorry 😬
The ultimate TRUTH IS Jesus Christ who is Almighty God. Through the power of the Holy Spirit no one can say and believe Jesus IS God. Also there’s ONLY ONE CHURCH namely the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by God himself two thousand year’s ago! There’s NO salvation outside the holy Catholic Church and there’s NO salvation without devotion to Mary as St. Louis de Montfort rightly said infallibly. God bless.
I’d push back on objective truth, because certain groups didn’t like being slaves or being segregated back in the day. So they fought for their rights, and now have the same access as other people here in America. So I would say objectively things can change whether you like it or not. It’s not always 100%
A warning to the apostate Church of Rome. King James Bible And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Revelation 18:4 New King James Version For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; revelation 22:18
Something you will learn about me is I'm a "live and let live" person. I'm not confrontational unless I have to be and I encourage people to think for themselves. The last time I talked to Tracy was in 2022. I wanted to see her but because of Covid, she was hesitant. I told her I had my vaccines, but she wasn't comfortable because she struggled with diabetes, so she was cautious. They were actually getting over the virus. I told her I was sad but I understood. We were going to make plans for later. Her phone went dead and later never came. She broke thru the other day. My family has hurt me deeply but we will go forward to see the world is full of love and happiness once again. At least this is my goal.
Your watch can show one time, my watch can show another time and their watch can show another time, but it can all be tuned wrong...! TTherefore, we have something called the standard of Greenwich...? To measure time... to get to a common agreement? And yet, we have Christ on the Cross Hanging to Prove True Love! We have to make certain we dont believe any other false prophet's or liars whose actions and life itself prove their falsehood! For Jesus is the way, the Truth and the Life! And the only WAY, that leads to the Truth about God's Love which is able to take us to Heaven. 🙏🥰🙏!!! Open your eyes Oh Ye, wandering people in search of the Truth...🙏🙏🙏!
People justify breaking relationships and cancelling friendship based on subjective truth(feelings, opinions, preferences). Then they accuse you of being offensive. This is very painful. Thanks for this talk Fr. Mike!
So true! Especially nowadays between people who vaccinate & people who don't want it. 98% recovery rate from covid. People need to care more about each other & their souls 💗🙏✝️
"I believe God exists" is a statement of your personal opinion. It's the same as saying "I've examined all the evidence and on balance I believe God exists". It's your personal opinion. It's not a proven fact. To use your terms, it's a subjective truth.
Papa Murphy's is great pizza! My daughter manages 3 stores in NC. Truth is subjective, my brother in law believed that there was no alcohol mentioned in the bible. Jesus turned water in grape juice, but it was called wine - he was a recovering alcoholic.
You mentioned more power. I could shut you up. I was doing something one day and realized that God has all this power and he doesn't abuse it. Awesomeness! My point is i wish people would leave the power to God and perhaps realize they don't have any real power. Mob rules? It does happen. I believe and I'm glad I am not the only one. My line of thought is political these days. In my own way I see the wrong becoming the right. The darkness becoming the normal. It isn't and I am glad my Master woke me up. Thank you Lord. Oh, I am not a Catholic. I am a believer.. Thanks for a good talk.
Is there any canonical Catholic dogma around either the Law of the Excluded Middle (which you implicitly mention around 0:55), or around some of the things which sometimes motivate mathematical/logical constructivism like Godel's incompleteness theorems? For example, Gödel proved that in any sufficiently strong, consistent system of reasoning there must always be propositions which are neither provably true nor provably false. Then if we could consider the implications that this would have for God, who has total knowledge, must it not then be the case that either He knows these statements to be true or false but without having proof (the absence of any proof of true statements even in total knowledge seems to violate the idea that truth is "what is?"), or alternatively that these statements are just *genuinely* neither true nor false? Would love to see some more Catholic takes on epistemology, logic, and foundations of math!
I wish I could have expressed this as clearly as you have. In a “discussion” with my adult daughter, she said it depends on her “prism”. I said that doesn’t make it true. I should have said it is not an objective fact that is true.☺️
Jesus came to show humanity what was possible, not only that people could be happy with little; but that all humanity are in fact children of an infinitely wealthy and generous father, and that a happy and abundant life is within everyone's reach; not just in a supposed heaven. Once the Truth is understood, inner and outer riches and contentment are possible for any and all who are willing to live according to the Truth; and the Truth Jesus speaks of is Love. Allowing Love to guide you in your life is all that is required to live a blessed life, one full of Love and other types of abundance; creativity, joy, fulfillment, beauty and adoration of the One God abiding within everything; giving life to everything. It is that, the divinity in all, that Jesus came into life to honor and to spread the word about. The lowliest and mightiest in society are equally beLoved in the eyes of God, in the eyes of that which is behind all of creation; and which lives and breaths through all of creation.
Father Mike what's your opinion about testube babes for single women? If possible I would love to have triplets😊, should it be possible, I would bring them up for Christ and teach them to look after the widows orphans and the lonely in the world... rather then achieve degrees of the world, I would dedicate them and train them to reach out in Love to those who seek God and strive to give reasons for the discouraged and disheartened to believe in the Goodness of God when many feel left out, my children would remind them of Gods love and encourage them in doing what is right and just, like how you do... and reach out to encourage the mourning and lonely to hope in the saving power of God and give hope to the hopeless in the Name of Jesus, who did it all, and said it is accomplished for Goodness and God🙏🙌🙏!
Yet we hear others condemn catholicism and catholicism does the same and still nobody call tell each other what actually is... maybe we will all be accepted into the kingdom of heaven as Christian brothers.. will you think you hold a position over me? So why do you think you hold a position over every other believer of God.. it doesn't matter what you look like or what being a true believer looks like to you what matters is when the day comes will you be found to be a true believer.. I pray that you do my brothers, Oh how I pray for us all.
No such thing as real Truth. There is only The Truth. You are either of the Truth Or you are of the lie. Truth is not real. Truth is. If you need 10min to explain such a simple thing then you are talking about truth which is a lie and not about Truth which is.
This still does not explain how truth is objective because truth has no physics manifestastion, the icecream is physical and observable so it works…but with this “truth” you speak has to be subjective because it is not real, only a concept?
Sadly a large portion of the population believes that there is no such thing as objective truth. I've even heard arguments go as far as basic addition (i.e. 1+1=2) being subjected. Insanity.
(To be clear, I understand that in, say, binary 1+1=10 (which is similar to Fr. Mike's lamp on and off wordplay argument), that's not the argument I've heard being made.)
Question for Fr. Mike: how can a good thing come from a sin? For example, if two people have sex outside of marriage, and the girl gets pregnant, how can we explain how this "good thing" of life and of pregnancy came from this "bad thing" of fornication
Because the child is completely separate from the reason as to how she got here. She is an innocent soul. You also don't know what the person will become and do for the family and others. You don't know how the parents will be affected positively from the relationship etc I'm not Mike but I know the answer
Thank you father Mike. I get so tired of people saying well that’s your truth. I explain to them that there is my experience or my opinion or my preference, as you illustrated here, but there’s only one truth and it comes from God. They don’t like it.
Coincidence...yesterday I wore a shirt my sister gave me years ago, that I haven't worn for years. On the front it says, "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes!".
sorry padre, pilate didn't have an answer and none of us have it that's the word that the Lord made us think during our life and no body have an answer because we are sinners we are lucky enough to get that from Jesus
Good question! I would like to hear Fr Mike Schmitz talk about it but I doubt it because he's so diplomatic in how he explains topics. You may appreciate listening to Fr Mark Goring who supports Fr Altman 🙏 I believe Fr Altman is being unjustly persecuted because he speaks the Truth ✝️🙏💗 All Catholics should live & speak the Truth especially when it is "tough" or controversial ✝️ We must be brave like the Saints 🌟💗
It depends on what one means by “my truth”, I would say. There is really only “THE truth” and “your opinion”. The phrase “my truth” is confusing, and doesn’t quite make sense when you think about it. People use the phrase “my truth” to talk about their unique beliefs. For example, a young girl may proclaim that her truth is that she is a boy, while THEE truth is that she is, in fact, a girl. So her truth is not truth at all, but rather her belief, which is at odds with the objective truth, aka, reality. So “my truth” and “my opinion” are different in that my truth means the belief I strongly hold, and “my opinion” is my thoughts on a thing that is subject to change. But they are the same in that they’re both not the objective truth, but a subjective thing.
As always you went with wisdom and TRUTH, and your description of what could be done for of subjective truth (opinions etc) is the perfect answer especially for today's society trying to pretend like objective truth and facts don't exist because they don't like it or cuz it's not convinient 🙄🙄🤪👏👏
Jesus bless all those who read this.
JESUS BLESS THIS PERSON ASWELL 😊
Thanks. Blessings on you as well.
Let Jesus bless you too! And thank you. 😊🙏
God bless! In the name of the Father, Son, AND Holy Spirit!
💖 Same to you 🙏
Amen.
Thank You Father Mike💜✝️💜
Fr. Mike you said, "A statement that is true if it is in accord with reality." Since God is the Absolute Reality then, anything consistent with God is the Truth.
I saw an exchange in the youtube comments one time on KWS' cover of Please Don't Go. One guy said it was the first version of Please Don't Go, then a second guy said that it wasn't; KC and the Sunshine Band did the first version of it. Well the first guy said ''Well it was the first version for me'' then the second guy said ''reality doesn't work like that.''
So in the case of a lamp that is turned on but the electrical grid is experiencing a brownout, it could be true to say that the lamp is on (there is some modicum of light emitting from the bulb) yet it is also true to say that it's not *really* on, because it is not serving the function of a lamp (i.e. you will harm your vision if you try to read by that amount of light).
Determination of Truth value seems to be dependent upon 1)perspective and 2)level of focus.
This concept is what the Jain seven-state logic system is based on, and is more functional in describing fractal reality (always rhyming, never exactly repeating)
This video came out at an astoundingly coincidental time in my life right now.
I've been 100% certain in my faith for the past 8 years from high school to the end of college, and through the past few weeks, I've started to fight doubts that have never, ever come before me until now.
I've been questioning my faith. I don't disagree with the Church on any moralistic matter at all, as they've explained their stances and it all makes sense theologically and rationally, but my doubt comes from the idea that I should be taking what is said long ago or by some that I don't even know as "true", whether its if God's existence, if my prayers mean something, if everything really has objective meaning, or if nothing matters.
I don't want to lose my faith. At all. Without God, there's nothing to live for, and people tell me doubts are normal, but I want to go back to having confidence again; I want to go back to looking at the icons of Our Lord and Our Blessed Mother and not feeling guilty or sad, thinking that "maybe there is no God".
Please help me, and pray for my eased mind. I want to go back to normal.
You don't have to believe just because "someone said it long ago". The reasons we believe is that the system as a whole is coherent and makes more sense to explain reality than any other system. In order to live our life, we must make a choice regarding which conception of reality we will apply in our life. Even those who don't want to make this choice end up making it by their actions, brecause one's actions are always made according to a certain conception of reality, of what is true or not, good or not. So a good reason to believe in Catholicism is that it is the more coherent belief system there is. If it is the more coherent, then it is probably the true one. Of course we can never reach absolute certainty, we can only have probabilities. But if a system of thought is more coherent than an other one, then it has a higher probability to be true. Atheism does a poor job at explaining morality and metaphysics. It has therefore a lesser probability to be true than theism.
just try to acknowledge the existence of satan, he is real, he is the one planting these seeds in your head right now , dont look at logic or human intelligence because that blocks your heart for god, and its almost like a sense of pride building up too!
be simple like a child
persevere and pray my friend ...
a simple prayer in your own words would be more than enough :)
i totally recommend you read The Poem of Man-God by Maria Valtorta
God and the Devil are synonyms for bad and good!
This is a sign that your faith is growing. Your leaving childhood faith behind, and now need to build up your adult faith. As you have said yourself, this is not only perfectly normal, it is a sign of personal development - it's a good thing. Congratulations!
What helped me a lot when I had similar doubts was collecting all the times I experienced God's presence in my life earlier. Small miracles, answered prayers, times when I found just the right answer in the Bible.
Do you have a spiritual guide? It's also very helpful when you can openly and regularly talk about your spiritual life, including your questions and doubts, with a priest you trust and love. A good priest will not shun you for having doubts; instead, he will help you explore them.
Learning more about the Catholic faith in general was something that helped me a lot, too. Reading the Cathecism, learning more about saints, reading religious literature, finding my place within the Church - the Catholic Church is united but multifaceted. Some of us are very traditional, others want to open up to the whole world even if it means abandoning some traditions; some of us are spiritual, others down-to-earth, we have mystical saints, goofy saints, serious saints, happy saints, martyrs, philosophers, hermits, social workers, missionaires... we believe in the same God, the same core teachings, but we all have our unique identities, movements, ideas within the same Church. It helped me immensely to find the way, the community, the spirituality I felt most comfortable with, and for that, I needed to learn a lot. (Just watch out for heresies.)
Finally, the idea that helps me the most whenever I'm doubting God is that the twelve apostles experienced and lived through it all first-hand, and each and every one of them (except John) was willing to die a brutal death rather than renounce Jesus. All they needed to do was say "yeah, we will stay quiet; no, Jesus was not God; OK, we will obey the emperor/the Jewish priests/whoever y'all want us to obey." If they had made it up, or if they had been unsure about the truth, at least some of the twelve would have backed off or compromised. Not many are stupid enough to go through torture, public humiliation and execution for something that didn't happen, and all 12 apostles proudly and consequentially proclaimed that Jesus is the Messiah who has risen from the dead.
+1: whatever you do, don't stop praying.
I'm praying for you! :)
Everyone in this comment section has brought me to tears. I thank you all for the reassurance I needed, and for all of your lives.
Christ is King, and my journey is just beginning. I WILL get through this.
Hey guys pray for me and I am praying for you❤️🙏🏼✝️
"Truth cannot be manufactured, it can only be discovered."
@@jennifermcminn4194 Let's not make this political lol. We're talking about the faith. Not Trump, or Biden or any of that.
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I'm curios to ask, what are some "lies" he has told his followers? From what I know, and being a catholic, he has been right about many things and stands for the objective truth that human live begins at conception and that abortion is murder, thanks!!
Pray for me and also pray for the people in China.
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Why for the people in China?
@@Pheer777 Ikr nothing wrong with people in china. People always have bad stereotype with the communist party....
I’m really not sure I understand what Fr. Mike is talking about, but I think I’m suppose to order a pizza and re-watch this video.
LOL! 🍕🍕🍕
LOL. Get Papa John's AND Dominos. Objective truth is that you have pizza from two different companies, subjective truth is that you like one more than the other... Pizza always solves confusion in my house 😄😄.
Lol
If you ordered pepperoni pizza because that is your truthful preference, and the delivery guy gave you a vegetarian pizza and refuses to refund you for the order because he believes you shouldn't eat meat, then you'll get what Fr. Mike is talking about.
Pray for India, we are still in lockdown 😔
I definitely have to listen to this again but I think it is that Truth is Truth even if no one believes it!!!
Exactly!
That's right. Just like a crime scene for example, the evidence actually points to a singular set of events. There is only one narrative that is true out of many possible narratives.
Facts are true but not 'truths' in of themselves.
Here are some more examples of subjective truth and objective truth:
“I think Father Mike is a really cool guy!” Well, this is entirely my opinion, and therefore subjective. You can totally disagree with me. It’s also highly probable that you will agree with me as you may already be a fan of his. Either way, my opinion of Father Mike doesn’t have to be true for you for me to have that opinion. This is the essence of subjectivity.
“Father Mike has blue eyes.” This is objectively true. If you didn’t see it watching the video the first time, go look again. Also, whether or not you are even able to see the color of a person’s eyes, it doesn’t affect that person’s eye color at all. A genuinely colorblind person might not know their own eye color, and it doesn’t change their eye color.
(There are random, rare, and obscure conditions that can change a person’s eye color. If your eyes ever change color, go find a doctor-you’ll need one.)
No such thing as "This is my truth" relating to reality.
True, because we're the one's that create reality
@@gazagxrlx2974 what have you created?
@@gazagxrlx2974 Lol
@Gaza Gxrl \x/ I respectfully invite you to listen again to what Fr. Mike says. Objective reality is true regardless of whether we know it, like it, feel it, or believe it. We cannot create reality. What you speak of is subjective, and as such, you are the only one who knows, likes, feels, or believes it to he true. Therefore, it is not Truth. So many young people today are buying into lies that separate them from objective truth and communion with the one true God. This breaks my heart.
@@nataliephillips5980I am not contradicting Fr. Mike Schmitz. I agree with him wholeheartedly!
Too many people walk around saying "This is my truth", and this is crazy. There is only one Truth, and it is not subjective. (Someone's opinion is just that - an opinion.) Sadly, for the past 10 years or so, I have heard people (my college students) mistakenly interchanging the word(s)/phrase "My opinion" with "My truth", and they are horribly incorrect. (I believe you have misread my comments.)
The Word of God is truth. Nothing else.
Yes but interpreted meaning can be truth or untruth
@@johnpaul-mp7zc no
@@brotherroopteachesthebible5368 read what he wrote again. Are you suggesting that every interpretation is true?
Well 2 + 2 = 4 isn't in the Bible but it's still true.
Where did God get his idea of wrong and right? Isn't that subjective???
So true! There are many relativist young people today who don’t believe absolute truth exists. Jesus is absolutely True!
Someone must have clicked the dislike button by accident.
Pray for Father James Altman. One of the true shepherds is under fire from hell's demons.
Amen am already 🌹🌹
Father Clay Hunt as well
The truth is what is. Based on that (great) definition, there is neither "one's truth" nor "subjective truth". Those are personal opinions, perceptions, bias and tastes, making "objective truth" nothing more than a pleonasm. But firstly, there is the Truth, Who Is.
Jesus is Truth..... period...... end of story.
God bless you abundantly father🙏
Day one of bible in a year
God is truth
Man can't find truth, he must let the truth find him
Second part would be incorrect seek and you shall find
@@angelalemos9811 thx for Sharing
I heard that from the story of saint agustine somewhere
God can place within you the desire to seek truth.
For instance..when. The pope tells a little boy and an entire crowd of people you don't have to believe in Christ to go to Heaven..that is not truth...
Jesus is the ONLY way to the Father. Not Mary or the Saints or anyone else. Jesus alone..THAT is truth.
Are you talking about a little boy with an atheist father who recently died? Would it have been better that the Pope tell a seven year old child their father is in hell? No one knows where his soul went. It would be incredibly insensitive to suggest to someone grieving their loved one that their loved one is in hell
@@IONov990 we tell the truth. We tell it with kindness and gentleness but we tell the truth. The pope would have known that of he were a Godly man.
Proverbs 13:5 The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.
He told millions this heresy. Some of which idolize and hang on to his every word rather than reading the Bible for themselves.
Such is the way of the Catholic religion though. Confess in a little box to a little man while neglecting to confess to the Father in Heaven. Call on the deceased such as Saul did. Pay for annulments as if the marriage never even happened so that you can appease the member of the congregation. But that does not erase the marriage. God knows and sees all. There is more heresy spewing out of the RCC and they continue to think of more ways to anger God. He is here and He is coming back and there will be a price to pay.
@@IONov990 although I feel more terrible since it is a child asking and I understand the difficulty of it I have to disagree with your statement of not knowing where he would have gone. As an unbeliever and one who mist likely was not baptized etc we know PERFECTLY well where he has gone
Objective truth is factual and subjective truth is opinionated. Sometimes subjective truth is formed based on objective truth, but never vice versa.
I agree with this video more than any other video that you have made. And more than any other video this video makes the most cogent argument against the existence of god. But first, Schodingler’s Cat would take exception to your argument on the principle of non-contradiction, that a thing can be and not be at the same time, it’s academic to you but life and death to the cat. To your point that god exists or he doesn’t exist based on the principle of non-contradiction.
You believe that god exists is an objective truth because you believe, as a Catholic, that god exists. If god exists “all Christians are right”, but if god does not exist all Christians are wrong. So, your “club” swings both ways. Early on in the video you define objective truth as something that “is” independent of “whether I know it, like it or believe it”. This argument to can be phrased differently. An objective truth can be false whether you know it, like it, or believe it. In one of your examples (05:21) someone says it is snowing outside in August. Objectively, it is either snowing or not snowing. Why is, “it’s snowing in August” objectively true? It’s not objectively true because someone told me, it’s objectively true because I can prove it. “Prove it”, the chant that is the bane of all religions. If something exists, you can prove it. If you can’t prove god exists, you can’t say god objectively exists. Therefore, in your own words, god’s existence is a subjective not an objective truth. You believe that god exists because you grew up in a Catholic household. If you had grown up in a Muslim household, you’d be an Imam, in a Buddhist household, a monk, and if you grew up in a Jewish household, you’d be a Rabbi. It’s not about objective truth it’s about subjective perception. The response to “prove it” is almost universally, I have faith that god exists. Using the definition of faith as a “belief that is not based on proof”, belief in god is subjective.
I don’t think that the difference between objective and subjective truth is a winning argument for you. All subjective truth is objective to the true believer. The winning argument is whether you like Starbucks or Seattle’s Best. Which ever you like best is objectively true to you. You can argue for your choice’s objectivity. But please, for god’s sake, don’t kill anyone or go to war over it. Also, your definition of mob rule is also called Democracy.
I think it is difficult accept objective truth when it conflicts with my beliefs, opinions, feelings, or preferences.
I really like Father Mike Schmitz.
Truth certainly can hurt.
@@kayestover5765 Is that pride that causes that? Sometimes I think feelings, emotions, opinions, and preferences are useless
Is this in contrast to positive psychology ? I will put forth a hot button topic and would like to discuss, how do we apply the thinking methods by Fr.Mike in this video to this?
Alex is having a discussion with Brian about pre-marital sex and morality. Alex could say that sex before marriage is objectively wrong but Brian could say it is good because it feels good, it bonds the couple together and it is a great stress reliever. The latter is right and wrong but wrong in this context because it is not done in the state of married life. A parallel analogy would be killing someone in cold blood VS killing an enemy in war.
I love Fr Mike's enthusiasm and his smile !
I know it’s true that you like to drive a little over the speed limit because I’ve heard you talk about being pulled over in other videos!😂😂😂
Subjective opinion is not subjective truth.
Truth is truth.
What is subjective truth?
@@josephjackson1956 No such thing as "subjective truth". People are misspeaking when they say, "My truth is ..." To be accurate, they must say is, "My opinion is ...."
Truth is absolute and NOT subjective.
(Thank you, Fr. Schmitz, for reminding the general public of proper wording.)
Yes. Truth is always absolute.
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life no one comes to the Father except through Jesus John 14:6.
Some of the podcasts on Ascension try to pass off subjective truth for The Truth.
Why hasn't the Vatican repented of the Panchamma idol worship that took place at the Vatican OCTOBER 2019? Now we have RCC bishops and priests that don't believe in orthodox Catholic teachings on sexual ethics. I admire you....sad that the RCC is going away from objective truths.
Schrödinger's cat is disagreeing here a bit I am afraid, no offense
I am an English Instructor at a community college, and students constantly say, "Well, that is not my truth." 🤦🤦🤦🤦
Yeah, I remember when I was young & stupid too. College kids think that they know everything.
That would be a perfect example of lack of logic in today's society
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"What is truth?" How is truth determined? "Truth" is: What is? Huh? Hey, 2+2=4 is true. I'm a woman regardless of the "truth" that I am chromosome-ly XY, is FALSE/NOT truth.
Thanks Father Mike.
True...
God bless all Fr Mike's viewers. I guess you need it. 🙏🏻
THANK YOU for telling people that TRUTH is not adjacent to what people think, know, or like. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
There are a lot more options than voting, punching, and walking away... Like drinking our favorite coffees in peace and happiness while chatting over how much we each love coffee. Man I love coffee.
Hear, hear! Lol life would be much more simple if we all just enjoyed it and each other...
...especially coffee
@@wesley3300 Absolutely.
As a firm believer in objective truth, an understander of subjective preferences, and a hater of the misleading sin of moral relativity, I have a few thoughts to add for conversation sake:
1.) In the human, material sense I do believe things cannot be 2 opposing things at one (non-contradiction), but I do want to throw out the reality that Jesus was both fully human and fully God. Now, I don’t say this to prove non-contradiction is wrong with this reality, but to add to the divine mystery of the nature of God. Being the creator of our ability to even come up with the term “non-contradiction” shows us something...something that can be understood by relinquishing the perfect ability to understand the Trinity. What I’m clarifying is that paradox may seem like contradiction, but don’t confuse it with that. Paradox is in fact true and what I believe to be the gateway to Wisdom. Food for thought. On that note, my next point.
2.) The visible doesn’t totally constitute what is real. I believe Chesterton touches on this when he writes about how the most rational men leave space for the irrational-what he was describing is the virtue of humility which is the gateway of faith. To illustrate the same point, but in a more rational approach, let’s think of what a philosopher would say and how an empiricist would respond.
A philosopher would say that the world is 99% invisible, invisible meaning, the space in-between everything-the void, space. A scientist would say “yes, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be seen or understood, we just haven’t figured out the means to test it yet.”
I’m saying all this because I’ve observed the tendency in American Catholicism, which has sadly become more of a political orientation, to bind to the realities of material objective truth. I would say this is much more of a conservative point of view. Not necessarily wrong, but not necessarily right.
On the other hand there are those that prescribe much more to the “invisible” truths as absolutes. Think of the tendency of the left- winged ideologies to glorify emotion over objective, more “material” truths (an example of a fetus not being considered human upon conception because people would rather worship comfort of not having responsibility over the reality that can be proven that a fetus, even in the earliest stage of its existence, is in fact a human being).
What I’m getting at is that there is the middle way, the path in-between, where the subjective truth and the objective truths can align, but it takes a soul who seeks wisdom rationale. Wisdom being the attitude “I don’t know so many things because the world is in fact mostly invisible, I am not God, and I am a feeble human,” while rationale is the attitude of “things can be known and I do in-fact know things because I see them right in front of me.” Again, I don’t think the necessarily disprove non-contradiction, but proves paradox to be something to ponder and contemplate.
These are my thoughts! Thank you for the video, father.
Thank you for doing this video. I talked to girl the other day, and she was arguing that all truth is subjective. I will share this immediately.
Please do
Thank you Father Mike. Father how do we understand Jesus's statement about Himself when He said I am the Truth. Is it subjective, objective or moral truth? What is moral truth? Thank you. God bless you
Seek the truth of God’s nature to understand Him - His nature of endless love, kindness, patience, selflessness - and truth. As we learn His truths, we are drawn closer to him. Seek the truth. Seek all that is Him. People don’t do this enough. Shun all that is not him such as deception, lies and pride. Be totally truthful with each other. Do not tell partial truths. Do not withhold some truths to someone if you have the opportunity to tell them all truths. If you withhold even some information to somebody that would have helped them, then you have sinned because now they will suffer in some way because of your inaction. In other words; love others then you will want to treat them as you want to be treated yourself. These are God’s laws. To follow them will bring you in good favor of Him.
MATTHEW VERSE 23 13-15
The truth will ultimately lead to the ultimate, that is divine, good, who is God. If God is not good, or if some fools say there is no god, the only good is only wishful thinking and there is no point in searching for truth, because we have almost no power and authority over everything. Either things lead to God or not, and that is either they lead to the truth of and by Jesus Christ or not, that will tell you the truth. Because we have very very limited understanding and knowledge as humans, we have to believe from what is given and taught from the truth Himself, and He is God who is the divine ultimate good.
There is no such thing as "subjective truth". The truth itself is an objective value. The example given about coffee is not an example of truth, just a matter of opinion.
Again, this is bang on Father Mike! Beautifully explained, and very easy to understand, well put together! It definitely helped me, as I needed to hear this. And it's also comforting, and now I'm a little bit better equipped. May God continue to bless you, Father Mike!
In my prayers this morning, I was asking for clarity around the subject of “your truth” vs “my truth” vs “the truth”. Then this video popped up in my recommended. Thank you Lord and thank you Fr. Mike for making these videos 😇
Pizza is objectively good.
It’s created my God to it legit is, but we can abuse the good of pizza and fall into gluttony 😄
Papa John's dark roast with anchovies and nutmeg is bad, even if such a product existed.
This joke is also objectively bad, even if it were construed as humor.
Sorry
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Truth is God!!!
The ultimate TRUTH IS Jesus Christ who is Almighty God. Through the power of the Holy Spirit no one can say and believe Jesus IS God. Also there’s ONLY ONE CHURCH namely the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by God himself two thousand year’s ago! There’s NO salvation outside the holy Catholic Church and there’s NO salvation without devotion to Mary as St. Louis de Montfort rightly said infallibly. God bless.
I’d push back on objective truth, because certain groups didn’t like being slaves or being segregated back in the day. So they fought for their rights, and now have the same access as other people here in America. So I would say objectively things can change whether you like it or not. It’s not always 100%
A warning to the apostate Church of Rome.
King James Bible
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Revelation 18:4
New King James Version
For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; revelation 22:18
Something you will learn about me is I'm a "live and let live" person. I'm not confrontational unless I have to be and I encourage people to think for themselves. The last time I talked to Tracy was in 2022. I wanted to see her but because of Covid, she was hesitant. I told her I had my vaccines, but she wasn't comfortable because she struggled with diabetes, so she was cautious. They were actually getting over the virus. I told her I was sad but I understood. We were going to make plans for later. Her phone went dead and later never came. She broke thru the other day. My family has hurt me deeply but we will go forward to see the world is full of love and happiness once again. At least this is my goal.
Love you way of explaining things! Simple yet profound!
The law is good, perfect and holy but cannot help you be good, perfect or holy. (Romans 7:7-12). Yeshua is the only Truth.
Your watch can show one time, my watch can show another time and their watch can show another time, but it can all be tuned wrong...! TTherefore, we have something called the standard of Greenwich...? To measure time... to get to a common agreement? And yet, we have Christ on the Cross Hanging to Prove True Love! We have to make certain we dont believe any other false prophet's or liars whose actions and life itself prove their falsehood! For Jesus is the way, the Truth and the Life! And the only WAY, that leads to the Truth about God's Love which is able to take us to Heaven. 🙏🥰🙏!!! Open your eyes Oh Ye, wandering people in search of the Truth...🙏🙏🙏!
Would you say the following statement is OBJECTIVELY true? Life begins at the moment of conception.
Yes that is objective people can't have an opinion on that ✝️👍
Wow! This was bizarre! 😳 There is Only one Truth...the "Truth" period!
What do you mean by bizarre?
People justify breaking relationships and cancelling friendship based on subjective truth(feelings, opinions, preferences). Then they accuse you of being offensive. This is very painful. Thanks for this talk Fr. Mike!
So true! Especially nowadays between people who vaccinate & people who don't want it. 98% recovery rate from covid. People need to care more about each other & their souls 💗🙏✝️
"I believe God exists" is a statement of your personal opinion. It's the same as saying "I've examined all the evidence and on balance I believe God exists". It's your personal opinion. It's not a proven fact. To use your terms, it's a subjective truth.
Jesus Christ, is God. He lives. Praise God. Everything else is secondary! God Bless. That's the Truth.
Papa Murphy's is great pizza! My daughter manages 3 stores in NC. Truth is subjective, my brother in law believed that there was no alcohol mentioned in the bible. Jesus turned water in grape juice, but it was called wine - he was a recovering alcoholic.
“With God all things are possible” Matthew 19:26. What does that leave out? Nothing.
You mentioned more power. I could shut you up. I was doing something one day and realized that God has all this power and he doesn't abuse it. Awesomeness! My point is i wish people would leave the power to God and perhaps realize they don't have any real power. Mob rules? It does happen. I believe and I'm glad I am not the only one. My line of thought is political these days. In my own way I see the wrong becoming the right. The darkness becoming the normal. It isn't and I am glad my Master woke me up. Thank you Lord. Oh, I am not a Catholic. I am a believer.. Thanks for a good talk.
Is there any canonical Catholic dogma around either the Law of the Excluded Middle (which you implicitly mention around 0:55), or around some of the things which sometimes motivate mathematical/logical constructivism like Godel's incompleteness theorems?
For example, Gödel proved that in any sufficiently strong, consistent system of reasoning there must always be propositions which are neither provably true nor provably false. Then if we could consider the implications that this would have for God, who has total knowledge, must it not then be the case that either He knows these statements to be true or false but without having proof (the absence of any proof of true statements even in total knowledge seems to violate the idea that truth is "what is?"), or alternatively that these statements are just *genuinely* neither true nor false?
Would love to see some more Catholic takes on epistemology, logic, and foundations of math!
I wish I could have expressed this as clearly as you have. In a “discussion” with my adult daughter, she said it depends on her “prism”. I said that doesn’t make it true. I should have said it is not an objective fact that is true.☺️
Jesus came to show humanity what was possible, not only that people could be happy with little; but that all humanity are in fact children of an infinitely wealthy and generous father, and that a happy and abundant life is within everyone's reach; not just in a supposed heaven.
Once the Truth is understood, inner and outer riches and contentment are possible for any and all who are willing to live according to the Truth; and the Truth Jesus speaks of is Love.
Allowing Love to guide you in your life is all that is required to live a blessed life, one full of Love and other types of abundance; creativity, joy, fulfillment, beauty and adoration of the One God abiding within everything; giving life to everything.
It is that, the divinity in all, that Jesus came into life to honor and to spread the word about. The lowliest and mightiest in society are equally beLoved in the eyes of God, in the eyes of that which is behind all of creation; and which lives and breaths through all of creation.
Father Mike what's your opinion about testube babes for single women? If possible I would love to have triplets😊, should it be possible, I would bring them up for Christ and teach them to look after the widows orphans and the lonely in the world... rather then achieve degrees of the world, I would dedicate them and train them to reach out in Love to those who seek God and strive to give reasons for the discouraged and disheartened to believe in the Goodness of God when many feel left out, my children would remind them of Gods love and encourage them in doing what is right and just, like how you do... and reach out to encourage the mourning and lonely to hope in the saving power of God and give hope to the hopeless in the Name of Jesus, who did it all, and said it is accomplished for Goodness and God🙏🙌🙏!
Yet we hear others condemn catholicism and catholicism does the same and still nobody call tell each other what actually is... maybe we will all be accepted into the kingdom of heaven as Christian brothers.. will you think you hold a position over me? So why do you think you hold a position over every other believer of God.. it doesn't matter what you look like or what being a true believer looks like to you what matters is when the day comes will you be found to be a true believer.. I pray that you do my brothers, Oh how I pray for us all.
No such thing as real Truth.
There is only The Truth.
You are either of the Truth
Or you are of the lie.
Truth is not real.
Truth is.
If you need 10min to explain such a simple thing then you are talking about truth which is a lie and not about Truth which is.
Hi
This still does not explain how truth is objective because truth has no physics manifestastion, the icecream is physical and observable so it works…but with this “truth” you speak has to be subjective because it is not real, only a concept?
Praying for you Fr Mike and all the people at Ascension. You guys are awesome!
Maybe you should give this talk to the bishops!
And to school kids
Whatever it is, it’s dynamic, not religious and political sociopath
Sadly a large portion of the population believes that there is no such thing as objective truth. I've even heard arguments go as far as basic addition (i.e. 1+1=2) being subjected. Insanity.
(To be clear, I understand that in, say, binary 1+1=10 (which is similar to Fr. Mike's lamp on and off wordplay argument), that's not the argument I've heard being made.)
Question for Fr. Mike: how can a good thing come from a sin? For example, if two people have sex outside of marriage, and the girl gets pregnant, how can we explain how this "good thing" of life and of pregnancy came from this "bad thing" of fornication
Because the child is completely separate from the reason as to how she got here. She is an innocent soul. You also don't know what the person will become and do for the family and others. You don't know how the parents will be affected positively from the relationship etc I'm not Mike but I know the answer
Steve Jobs, Willie Nelson are two modern examples of good things that came from sin. Lots of others to if you do some research on the subject
Thank you father Mike. I get so tired of people saying well that’s your truth. I explain to them that there is my experience or my opinion or my preference, as you illustrated here, but there’s only one truth and it comes from God. They don’t like it.
Coincidence...yesterday I wore a shirt my sister gave me years ago, that I haven't worn for years. On the front it says, "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes!".
sorry padre, pilate didn't have an answer
and none of us have it that's the word that the Lord made us think during our life and no body have an answer because we are sinners we are lucky enough to get that from Jesus
Truth helps clarify the reality. Thanks Fr. Mike for explaining in detail.
Since we are talking about the truth, what is your take on the Fr Altman situation?
Good question! I would like to hear Fr Mike Schmitz talk about it but I doubt it because he's so diplomatic in how he explains topics. You may appreciate listening to Fr Mark Goring who supports Fr Altman 🙏 I believe Fr Altman is being unjustly persecuted because he speaks the Truth ✝️🙏💗 All Catholics should live & speak the Truth especially when it is "tough" or controversial ✝️ We must be brave like the Saints 🌟💗
I forward your videos to so many people. Even if I know the answer to a question, I know that you'll answer it far more charitably than I will!
Truth is what I face every moment of my existence. It does not require an answer.
Is there a difference between "my truth" and "my opinion", or do they mean the exact same thing?
It depends on what one means by “my truth”, I would say. There is really only “THE truth” and “your opinion”. The phrase “my truth” is confusing, and doesn’t quite make sense when you think about it. People use the phrase “my truth” to talk about their unique beliefs. For example, a young girl may proclaim that her truth is that she is a boy, while THEE truth is that she is, in fact, a girl. So her truth is not truth at all, but rather her belief, which is at odds with the objective truth, aka, reality.
So “my truth” and “my opinion” are different in that my truth means the belief I strongly hold, and “my opinion” is my thoughts on a thing that is subject to change. But they are the same in that they’re both not the objective truth, but a subjective thing.
Padre, Caribou is not subjective. Its "truth" it's better.
What if I said ,”At least we know,We both like pizza?”
Love this explanation.....and Dr.Sri's commentary on Pilate asking the same question! No Greater Love Study ❤
This spoke right into my heart. Thank you Fr. Mike.
Jesus is Truth. That is the most certain thing we have. Truth does not change or waver.
Fr. Mike likes driving a little over the speed limit, so does that mean it is morally okay for me to drive over the speed limit.
As always you went with wisdom and TRUTH, and your description of what could be done for of subjective truth (opinions etc) is the perfect answer especially for today's society trying to pretend like objective truth and facts don't exist because they don't like it or cuz it's not convinient 🙄🙄🤪👏👏
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What is - either true or false, a statement that is either true or false relating to reality
Something very noble to tell. Lies are easy. !
😂😂😂"wisdom Speaks...!" Father Mike you are so hilarious... yet can convey it to the point..😘!
I was just making a comment about this to my wife when we were watching the senate confirmation hearings today. Ask and you shall receive!