"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me'."
-John 14:6
I did not want to talk about truth without addressing its significance, so I decided I would write about the truth. Notice I said the truth, and not truth. In previous posts about truth, I said that there can only be one truth. Truth is not relative, but absolute; so there can only be one truth. So the question is, "what is the truth?" This is a very debated question that is argued time and time again. Why? Because no one knows the truth for certain, and there is no definitive evidence of the truth. I cannot give any evidence that I am correct in saying what the truth is, or any that will persuade anyone who is convinced of something otherwise. I understand that you may not agree with me, which is fine. To answer the question of what the truth is, I looked at John 14:6. Jesus assures His disciples that He is the truth. This answers the question quite accurately and directly. Jesus is the truth. I want to try to explain this a little more however. Again I want to look at John 14. Jesus' disciples ask Him for the way, not the truth. It seems excessive for Jesus to say "I am the way and the truth and the life". Why did Jesus not just say "I am the way"? I believe that Jesus understood what the disciples not only were asking, but what they were seeking as well. The disciples asked for the way, but they also wanted truth and life. Why did they want the truth and life? Everyone is seeking the way, truth and life. How do I know this? Because without these things people are lost, lied to, and dead. People are surrounded in lies, and want some sort of constancy in their life, which is truth, because the truth is constant and never fails. Jesus recognized this, and wanted the disciples to know and to have the truth. Everyone is seeking the truth, but don't know how to. They look at philosophy, theology, celebrities, you name it. All these things will not give anyone the truth. How do we find the truth? We have to seek it; but we can't seek truth itself. Seeking truth as an idea or concept will not help you find it. It is impossible to find anything in this manner. To find the truth, we have to seek Jesus. Jesus is not an idea or concept, He is a person. You can seek Jesus because He is a person, and He promises that if you seek you will find.
-Smart
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