''There are in fact absolute truths (if you think about it, to say there's no such thing as an absolute truth is in itself a contradiction, because than it wouldn't be true). The problem is that there is no such thing as a perfect formulation of those truths, one that is capable of containing all possible facets of said truths (which, being absolute, have an infinite number of facets or angles they can be viewed at). It's like when St. Augustine was asked to explain his theory of time, to which he said "i thought i knew, but now that you asked me i'm not so sure anymore". That's one of the reasons religions rely so much on indirect, symbolic, allegorical or straight out elliptical (pardon the contradiction) means. It is why religious texts are such an incomprehensible mess, at least at face value. There is no way to really express the whole of the truth in words, you have to draw people to an inward realization of this truth by any alternative mean possible.''