Truth

Thanks for the apology. It's okay. This is communication, we work together to obtain our shared meaning. We debate to flush out the differences.

Truth is universal, it does not rely on a book. In communication it only relies on a shared meaning. Many of those shared meanings are encoded in the Bible, some are not. Many of those shared meanings are encoded in the dictionary, some are not.

If you say something is bad and I think you are saying it is not good when in fact you are using the connotation it is actually good with no notice to me. It could be considered a lie by me because our meaning was not shared. You had no intent to deceive me but I was nonetheless confused.

This miscommunication has no bearing on the thing that was actually true, the truth existed regardless of our shared or altered meanings. The truth is what is real. That is why faith in shared meanings is important to me.