"Truths" or tenets are that which faith accepts as fact. Not to be confused with evidence which is a requirement for the non-believer.

"Truth" is whatever people choose to believe is truth. Especially when it comes to "religion". Who knows what the "true" one is? ALL the "hard evidence" has been rehashed and fought over since the beginning of time. I think it's all a great waste of time and energy.

Truth shouldn't be given one meaning with respect to religious beliefs yet another meaning with respect to everything else. No claim should be called true unless it is found to be consistent with reality, whether that claim is religious or not. Unfortunately, it is difficult for people (anyone) to reliably perceive reality in many cases. Primarily, this is because the human mind is extremely prone to many kinds of cognitive bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases), which can easily fool us into having false beliefs. So to guard against this, we need to be aware of these biases and try to compensate for as many of them as possible. Usually this entails testing claims against independent observations (hard evidence, as you say) and against other similarly tested beliefs for consistency

Well with the Bible it is. It is historical as well as theological, and therefore varifiable. I've heard that more things are being found out to varify the biblical record as time has gone by. ( example: the anceint ruins of the city of Jericho - where the walls fell outward, instead of inward from a seige - as is recorded in the bible)- ( About 3000+ years ago )

It depends on the religious belief. You cannot lump them all in together as they have completely different world views. eg some may hold that truth is relative (Hinduism/Buddhism) or abrogatable (Islam). Christianity believes truth is absolute, and its ideal is seen in Jesus, who is historical. Paul wrote this in 1 Corinthians 15: 1Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. 3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance[a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Peter,[b] and then to the Twelve. 6After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born. 9For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. ============ You can see that these are the words of a man who believes in a historical occurrence, the appearance of the resurrected Jesus, which occurred not only to himself, but also to other witnesses. Paul was a highly educated man, who knew the difference between truth and myths, writing to Timothy 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (2 Tim 4) ========== Peter too, appeals to historical truth when he writes: 16We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty (1 Peter 1)

The Truth like God exist, can not be crated, changed or destroyed. The Evidence, does not require a truth to exist. It can substitute its own truth. (Seeing is Believing vs. Believing is Seeing.)