Assignment: Respond to the statement is "All truth
God's truth?" What are your initial thoughts about this statement, and
what conclusions do you then come to? Make sure you include a definition
of "truth".
Response: When evaluating the statement "All truth is God's truth" my response is
simple. This statement is correct. God created everything including all
truth. Therefore all truth belongs to Him, and anything aside from His
truth is not truth. Jesus himself stated "I AM the way the truth and the
life..." (John 14:6). According to scripture God is truth. The
Merriam-Webster definition of truth is "a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality".
That definition describes God pretty well. But how can we know truth?
We know that God is truth, but how can we know a God we can not see?
Scripture says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God..." (John 1:1). This tells us that Scripture
(God's Word) is divine and therefore truth. With this foundation we can
use Scripture to evaluate "truths" in today's world that are not
specifically in God's Word. Things such as the scientific method can be
used to search for truth but never come above God's Word. Any fact found
apart from Scripture should then be compared to scripture to be sure it
aligns with truth. Human beings have a natural desire for truth.
Unfortunately too many of them look in all the wrong places. As
disciples of Christ we must do our best to quench their thirst, to give
them truth, to show them Jesus.
I realized that my response had an issue in it... lets see if you can find it.
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