page_title: Religious views on truth
section_title: Christianity
hierarchical_section_title: Religious views on truth / Abrahamic religions / Christianity
caption_attribution_description: Русский: "Что есть истина?". Христос и Пилат English: What is truth? Christ before Pilate Deutsch: Was ist Wahrheit? Christus vor Pilatus Français&#160;: "Qu'est-ce que la vérité?" Le Christ et Pilate.
context_page_description: Truth is most often used to mean being in accord with fact or reality, or fidelity to an original or standard. Religious views on truth vary between religions.
context_section_description: Christian philosopher William Lane Craig notes that the Bible typically uses the words true or truth in non-philosophical senses to indicate such qualities as fidelity, moral rectitude, and reality. However, it does sometimes use the word in the philosophical sense of veracity.
  Some Christians believe that other authorities are sources of doctrinal truth. Catholics believe that the Pope is infallible when pronouncing on certain, rather specific, matters of church doctrine.
  In Christian Science, (not recognised as a Christian organization by the bulk of mainstream churches) Truth is God.
caption: Nikolai Ge's What is Truth?, depicting the New Testament account of the question as posed by Pilate to Jesus.
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