What is #truth? : Part 2

As a young Christian, I was challenged to read the book of John, and a very interesting thing that Christ said is that, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life."  (John 14:6)

How can a man be "truth"?  How can Christ say that "he is truth"?  Who gave him that authority?

It was later that I started to understand the thread of the Bible, how each verse, chapters, stories, related to each other from Old Testament to New Testament. 

In the beginning of John, it states:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning... The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."

~John 1:1-2, 14~

There is something about God's Word that correlates to truth and revelation.  God's Word is Truth.  God's Word is Christ.  Christ is The Truth.  And the more I read and compare the Christian Bible to other religious beliefs, Christianity seems to make a lot more sense. 

God = Christ = Word = Truth

In the Greek, the word was "logos" which loosely means "Word" but also means "count, tell, say, speak" or "opinion, to plea".  "Logos" also is the root for logic and in this case, a logical argument, pleading ones case.  If the Word (logos, our plea) is Truth, and the author of John states that Chris is this "logos", the personification of the Word and therefore Truth, the Word is like our revelation in the flesh of God and His Truth.  

It took me a while to wrap my head around this.  Many times, we think of Truth as some old sage or proverb, but in this text, Truth is Christ.   It's a living person, the living Truth of God. 

What is #truth? : Part 1

I started this blog some time ago but never got a chance to finish it until today.  😃


Often times I see this hashtag in social media.

#truth

It usually accompanies some trendy phrase or thought or saying from a famous person or a local celebrity.  Or it could accompany just something rather silly, obvious or common sensical stuff. 

Using the hashtag #truth actually drives me crazy sometimes.

***Why?***

Well, what if the thing you posted (phrase, quote, photo) is not truth to me?  What if I don't agree your post?  What if something you posted is against my religion?  What is it's not Biblical?  What if it's really against God's Word, God's will, God's purpose?

What is the basis for your truth?

There is an age old question: "What is truth?"  Even Pontius Pilate asked this question when questioning Jesus before he was crucified (The Bible, John 18:36-38)

C.S. Lewis has a very basic argument that really relates to good and evil, but it could be applied the same:

"If a good God made the world, why has it gone wrong? My argument against God was that the universe seem so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust?... What was I comparing this universe when I called it unjust?" ~Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (Book Two, 1. The Rival Conceptions of God)

In the same thought, where have we gotten the idea of truth?  What is this truth I'm comparing to?

Truth by definition is conforming or acknowledging that something is true, the true or actual state of the matter.  True is define as something that is not hidden, that is is revealed to us and is factual.

But then what is fact?  What is revealed to us?  Sounds very philosophical, but it doesn't have to be.  If we start asking how we got this idea of truth, and what make you think our truth is better than some others, one will start to think about "truth" and where do we find real truth in life.