There is only one Truth. ONE. The whole truth and nothing but the truth is Jesus. All areas of our truth are tainted by personal perspective. Mine, yours and theirs. I can write a statement and everyone will have their own idea of what that truth is. Only Jesus is Truth. He is THE Truth, the Way and the Life.
When we think we are so positioned in life to offer truth to the world, we must understand that the truth we offer is that which we know to be true. And what we know to be true is not necessarily true. For instance. I knew from the news today that the Lawton school system was in lock-down over some threat. Yet to tell someone else it was true based on my knowledge was something that was only true as far as my knowledge could attest. There were other variables which needed to be confirmed before it would ever be established that the truth had been told by me or by the news media.
It happens every day. A person is accused of something. People believe it is true because someone they know to be a truthful person has told it. Does it make it true because he told it? No. It only is true if it is proved true. I read a comment someone sent to me regarding the truth of God's Word. It's inerrancy to be precise, and the position held by the majority of my fellowship of faith believers.
I quote:
"The big problem is like you say…how do we know one from the other? Paul said to “Study…rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15)
We would agree the “word of truth” is the Bible. The question is: If it were ‘all’ true, why would we have to divide it? We have to divide the untruth from the truth."
WHAT? This is the first time I've ever seen that scripture passage used to discredit the Truth of God's own Word. To "rightly divide the word of truth" does not mean that any of the Bible is untrue! Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but I believe that passage means being able to divide out the truth within the Scripture to meet a particular situation one is going through. It does not mean the "Word" itself is at any time untrue.
As people attest to what they know of others in the public arena to be true from what they have learned of the public in the private arena, gives little light to the world as truth. Unless the subject matter is totally spelled out in every way, from each and every perspective, with each and every thought that each and every person is having at the particular time that an event occurs, then the truth is only speculative at most and innuendo at least.
Again, I say...Jesus is the Truth. We just attest to Him in His truth. All else is subject to inspection, dissection and perception. selahV
[copyrighted, SelahV Today, 2008]
