Today's Bible Study, Authored by Arthur Cincotti. 04/04/2021
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What Is Truth?
I don’t mean to quote Pontius
Pilate, but strongly believe that this is the question of the age.
We live in a truth
crisis
Truth is one of those funny
words that has the word in the definition.
For instance: “the quality, or state of being
true”?????
Also, “that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality
And, “a fact or belief that is accepted as true”
The Strong’s Hebrew is “emeth”
(H571) Uses synonyms as “certainty, assured, right, sure,
verity”
Greek is “aletheia”
In a fallen universe it seems
only logical that truth would be uncertain,
variable, subjective, and only partially
knowable if at all.
Postmodernism, which asserts
all of the above is, “in Western philosophy, a late 20th-century
movement characterized by broad skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism; a
general suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology
in asserting and maintaining political and economic power”
Brian Duignan, Sr. editor Ency. Brit.
Mike Cermovich, an alt-right
conspiracy theorist, said, “I read postmodernist theory in college. If
everything is a narrative, then we need alternatives to the dominant
narrative.”
If red is only red because of
a socially constructed consensus, then can we ask if anything is bedrock true?
How about, is dead dead?
Jesus would seem like a postmodernist because He deconstructs the notion of
death.
Mar.12:27, “He is not the God of the dead, but the God of
the living.”
Scripture consistently
reveals an alternative reality that is purported to be a more substantial
reality than the assumed reality.
How about:
Elisha prayed, “LORD, open his eyes that he may see”
(II kings. 6:17)
Jesus on the Mt. of transfiguration; Mt.17:2, Mk. 9:2
Lk.
2, “and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising
God and singing”
There does seem to be an
alternative reality (or narrative) out there that is more compelling than the
one most people are living.
How do we access it?
By faith?
Is this a cop out?
Jesus is the truth in the
same manner to which God is Love,
Jesus doesn’t just
tell the truth
God doesn’t just love.
These are stark absolutes
that have no reasonable alternatives.
Pilate was simply confirming
the reality he had conformed himself to. A false narrative, or fiction.
How far reaching is the “what
is truth” question???
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