Consider the possibility that having spent 2.5 years on a single verse of the Bible, and coming away knowing I barely scratched the surface of it, that perhaps there is more to it than a disparaging remark about Cretans.
Socrates, another prophet of God among the Greeks, put a similar concept in this manner: “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.†Socrates (apart from God)
Solomon wrote a book where this was a major theme: Ecclesiastes. "All is vanity and a striving after wind...UNDER THE SUN"
While I am not anywhere near the wisdom of Solomon, when the wisest man ever laments that, (apart from God=under the sun), nothing is certain and all is worthless, one should consider the possibility he was correct.
As the most intelligent man on this forum, I have learned we are all Cretans. If fear of the Lord is the begining of Wisdom, then accepting that one can know NOTHING apart from God is the begining of Alethiology. Titus 1:12 is the earliest known logical proof that logic is incomplete, that logic is unable to make sense even of itself.
There IS Absolute Truth, that Truth is a People. Specifically 3 People, Father Son and Holy Ghost. However, God has so designed creation, including our ability to think, so that it is not possible to divorce Truth from Him. Thus, even 1+1 has no definitive answer apart from acknowleging God. That is the conclusion mathematics has reached. That is why Kurt Godell claimed his 2 incompleteness theorems where a mathematical proof that there is a God.
Now, go google things like Epiminidis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox, Turin machines and the Continuum hypothesis for the mathematics.
Or go learn relativity theory and quantum mechanics for basically the same thing: you can know NOTHING for certain---unless God reveals it to you.
Or go read the Bible about how it is IMPOSSIBLE for the natural man to understand the Truth--apart from the Holy Spirit opening the eyes of man's intestines (splachnos).
My fellow ladies, we can know nothing apart from what our Bridegroom allows us to. Have we not yet learned from our mother Eve?
JR, the most intelligent man in this forum, who would be insufferables were he not so humble.