Saturday, June 26, 2010

The Truth

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the father, but by me. John 14:6

There's a growing school of thought that insists that truth is a fluid concept, that reality and truth are what we make them to be. Ridiculous. Truth is not subjective. Jesus said that He was "THE truth", singular--the only one. The problem comes in when we feel the need to explain and understand everything. A few thousand years ago people thought that lightning was the weapon of Zeus. Of course, we know that it is a natural release of atmospheric electricity. Lightning didn't suddenly change at some point from being the darts of the gods to a natural phenomenon. It is what it always has been. Our understanding of truth may change and is certainly subjective; but the truth itself is unchanging and definite. And some things are simply beyond our comprehension. We can't try to force truth through the filter of our experience--we filter our experiences through truth, realizing that the truth is infintely larger and more grandiose than our experiences and understanding ever will be.

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