Absolute truth, not limited truth, is a necessary component of
many religions.  Christians frequently insist that God is Love.
What they generally mean is that their particular version of god
is always loving in every conceivable situation towards every
conceivable person. Unless he gets righteously angry, of course.
The problem with this mindless assertion is that is is
inconsistent with reality and with the rest of the standard
Christian story. Leaving aside the difficulties of proposing a
supernatural being with human-like emotions, all but extremely
liberal Christians are faced with the uncomfortable theological
necessity of positing a god with absolute and unchanging
characteristics in the face of significant and embarrassingly
contrary evidence.  In the writings which these same Christians
believe are divinely inspired by the Jewish-Christian god, one
or other of the oneness-trio is frequently depicted as behaving
in a very unloving manner towards all manner of people,
including those that this multipl