Examples of many kinds of
truth -- moral and otherwise

	Muslims and Jews will answer that there is but one God and he is indivisible; a unity.
	Most Christians will answer that a single personal God exists, who is composed of three persons in the form of a Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
	Many strong Atheists will answer none.
	Agnostics would probably refuse to guess, saying that there is no way to know.
	Many Wiccans will say that there is a dual divinity: a Goddess and a God. However, others would say that only one deity exists and that the Goddess and God are female and male aspects of that deity.
	Most Hindus will answer that millions of Gods and Goddesses exist. However, they represent different aspects of the single deity.
	Zoroastrians will answer: two: one wholly good and one utterly evil.

But underlying these groups' beliefs is a reality. If we had infinite knowledge, we could simply count the number of deities in the universe. And the answer would probably be somewhere between the Atheists' zero and the Hindus' millions. So, for some questions, there exists a true answer that agrees with reality. But many groups of sincere, devout, intelligent followers hold many mutually exclusive beliefs. In the above examples, no matter what reality is, at least five of the seven groups are wrong. One can even imagine a situation in which all eight are wrong. No matter what a person's personal beliefs are, most people in the world would believe it to be wrong.

It is thus quite possible to pose a religious question that has an answer that is absolutely true. However, in this case at least, we have no way of proving which answer is correct.

A typical conservative Christian might say that "Abortion is wrong, except perhaps in those rare cases of rape or incest, or where the life of the woman is endangered" This statement is true to that person because it follows naturally from his/her core religious beliefs. Some of these might be: The Bible is inerrant. Most Bible passages should be interpreted literally. All Bible passages are useful for personal instruction. The Ten Commandments, and other biblical passages, tell us not to murder. Achieving personhood (i.e. making transition from human life in the form of a sperm and egg which contain human DNA to a human person) occurs at conception. Given these foundational concepts, one might logically conclude that abortion is generally wrong. Abortion is murder and should be condemned under all or almost all circumstances.

A typical liberal Christian might say that "abortion can be a moral choice; it may be a woman's least worse choice in many cases of unwanted pregnancy." This statement is true to that person because it follows naturally from his/her foundational religious beliefs. These might include the following: The Bible is a collection of documents written by fallible humans in order to promote the evolving spiritual and theological beliefs of their own faith group. Many Biblical passages reflect obsolete rules of behavior that society has rejected (e.g. slavery, oppression of women, killing some prostitutes by burning them alive). Various Biblical passages should be interpreted literally, symbolically, as midrash, as religious propaganda, as imported from surrounding Pagan cultures, or in other ways. Natural and human sciences have generated much knowledge that we can use in developing moral responses to current societal problems. The Bible is an unreliable source of scientific knowledge. Personhood  happens after conception - perhaps when the fetus becomes viable, or when the fetus becomes sentient -- its brain develops to the point when it attains self-consciousness and awareness of its surroundings. Thus, abortion, particularly if done early in gestation, is acceptable and may be the most moral choice.

Even within a single wing of Christianity, intelligent, sincere, thoughtful, prayerful theologians can reach totally different viewpoints on various questions. For example, InterVarsity Press publishes a book in which four conservative Christian Biblical experts argue mutually exclusive beliefs about the morality of divorce and remarriage. ₁ Yet all of the authors believe that their view, alone, is biblically correct. Zondervan publishes a series of books in which many leading Evangelical Christian authors argue what the Bible has to say about important doctrinal matters. Each expert takes an point of view that is different from all the others. Each believes that their view is what the Bible actually means; each might believe that their belief is absolutely true. ₂