An Idea: What is Truth?

In class we were asked this question: What is Truth?

In my mind TRUTH is in a sense God. It is the nature of God, the desires of God, the wisdom of God. in our world we understand truth, and when we're lucky part of that truth is also TRUTH, though no one but God and Jesus can know for certain what parts of truth are TRUTH. I imagine a ven diagram where there is a circle of TRUTH. Our perceptions of truth are all other circles that in some ways overlap TRUTH and in other ways do not. Since TRUTH is hidden, by exploring other persons' truth we might b e able to discern (thru the help of the Holy Spirit) that in them which is TRUTH, and more of that in our truth that is not TRUTH.

TRUTH is hidden, yet the Holy Spirit does guide us toward it. It requires much humility, however, because there is a VERY good chance that we have misunderstood the Holy Spirit, that we have confused the Holy Spirit with ourselves or our culture. Therefore it is important not to downplay or discount or discard another's understanding of truth, for theirs may have something to offer, and yours may be just as wrong in other ways as theirs.

But I have to say that I don't think that the quest for truth is only about bringing our truth in line with TRUTH. God is so huge that perhaps that is impossible. Hypothetically if everything that I believe is TRUTH, I still would not have come to understand TRUTH. God's TRUTH is too great for any one human being. Therefore, perhaps God utilizes different people's truth to be known and manifest in this world. Someone else may have a very different understanding of truth. That doesn't even mean that one of us is right and the other one wrong. Perhaps we are both exactly where God has guided us to be for a purpose. As I said in another post, perhaps this is the reason why we have different denominations.