There are many frameworks through which we can view concepts, and many questions yield multiple answers. Some perspectives complement each other, while others directly contradict one another. We might be tempted to say that no single view is superior or inferior—that truth is simply relative to one's perspective, and we can obtain different "truths" by changing our lens.
However, there's a critical limit to perspectivalism: When answers directly contradict each other, both cannot be true simultaneously. If one person says "the soul exists" and another says "the soul does not exist," they cannot both be correct about the same reality. Truth, by its nature, must be singular and universal. It exists independent of our viewpoints—we cannot change what is true simply by changing how we look at it.
Now consider the human condition: We are fundamentally limited beings. We die. We suffer from physical and mental illness. No matter how powerful we become, death eventually claims every human. We misunderstand each other constantly. We lie, manipulate, and hurt one another, even as we also love and create. We are weak—unable to see everything, unable to feel everything, unable to know everything.
Even our greatest achievements reveal our limitations. Science, while advancing, remains incomplete. We continue making errors in judgment. We commit injustices. This world is not fair, and we struggle to achieve true justice despite our best efforts. We are, in essence, deeply flawed creatures operating in a flawed world.
This leads to a profound problem: If we are so limited, so prone to error, so bound by our mortality and cognitive weaknesses—how can we reliably determine how humans should live? How can we establish what is truly good and what is truly bad?
We can learn through experience, yes—but this learning process is painfully slow and costly. We make irreversible mistakes along the way. Lives are lost, suffering is inflicted, and civilizations rise and fall based on incomplete understanding. Most tragically, individual humans die long before they can accumulate enough wisdom to grasp ultimate truth. Each generation must start partially anew, inheriting some wisdom but also repeating old errors.
Here is where divine revelation becomes necessary: If truth exists objectively but lies beyond our reliable grasp due to our inherent limitations, then it must come from a source that transcends those limitations. Truth must come from God—the one who created humans and this world, who is not bound by our weaknesses, who sees all and knows all.
God is one, and therefore truth proceeding from God is unified and consistent, even when it addresses our reality from different angles. Where human reasoning leads to endless contradictory conclusions, divine guidance provides the objective standard we cannot generate ourselves. This revelation addresses human limitation not by denying it, but by providing what our limited faculties cannot produce on their own: certain guidance on how to live in accordance with reality as it truly is.