Those things that are true are always true. Often we confuse this because what is true is complicated, difficult to understand, subject to a myriad of conditions, and most often, because the truth is not what we want. So, we prefer to live in a world where truth is relative, where our own opinion can actually alter the veracity of a given statement. But some things are true no matter what we want to believe. If you add a single unit integer to another single unit integer you get a value of two units. It doesn't matter if you express it as 1+1=2 (decimal system) or 1+1=10 (binary) or if you insist that it equals three units with all your heart, mind and soul. You cannot alter the underlying truth of the statement.
Not all truth is knowable. Some things because the knowledge is beyond our ability to obtain, such as the conditions on planets beyond our galaxy's local group. Some items are not knowable because they are beyond our capacity to understand. Such as the mind of God. According to the Bible, His thoughts are above our thoughts, in such a way that we don't even have a frame of reference.
Not everything we know is the truth. 1800 years ago, we knew the earth was flat. 500 years ago, we knew that the sun, the moon and the planets rotated around the earth. What we knew didn't change the truth. But as science progressed, we have corrected our knowledge and filled in gaps. It would be the height of arrogance to assume that our understanding now is the final perfected understanding of all truth. Even to assume that all we know to be "Scientific Law" is true is a claim of extreme arrogance.
But whether we want we can know the truth, whether what we know is true, the truth is still truth.
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