Posted on 12/20/2016 4:16:27 AM PST by Kaslin
Truth has always been accompanied by a doubled-mindedness. It is something that people claim to want, but few can bear. Socrates searched for it. Jesus bore witness to it, and Pilate answered, albeit rhetorically, “What is truth?” Truth is seeing things as they really are and ascribing to them their appropriate valuations. It is an identity that rises above mere opinion and affirmatively corresponds to a reality that transcends itself. Jack Nicholson says that we can’t handle it, while the Son of Man holds that it sets us free. Truth is a lot like virtue -- in that most everyone claims to desire it, but the general consensus deep down is that they would rather have pie.
Yes, people do not always welcome it, when, like a Jehovah’s Witness, it comes knocking at their doors. For much of humanity, self-deception holds a more soothing comfort: for illusions are fuzzy and forgiving like jogging pants. Some people never look in the mirror because of truth and tests are constructed in order to determine if we know what people say it is. And if you are standing before a judge or fighting a war, it would seem a very good thing to have truth on your side -- or an M-16.
The ancients equated it with wisdom. The Enlightenment valued it as a tool of emancipation from a world it was trying to bury. The postmoderns, beginning with Nietzsche, however, denied its ultimate existence and brashly claimed that the whole historical veneration of truth was merely a cynical means to secure power. Their legacy to us, one that is even now being chipped away, is that truth is perspectival -- one man’s truth is another man’s false narrative.
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I like Ravi Zacaharias’ analogy. Truth is like a bus. You can deny it, just don’t step in front of it or you will find it ain’t abstract at all!
The judge told the defendant that he could expect justice in his courtroom, to which the defendant replied “that’s what I’m afraid of.”
For a Marxist, truth is that which serves the revolution.
In the beginning was truth
And the truth was God
Because all things were created by a single divine mind, (“In the beginning God created…” Genesis 1:1), all truth forms a single, mutually consistent system – truth is unified and universal.
So, contrary to secular society, there cannot be “many truths”. Just God’s truth, which is absolute.
(Paraphrase of N. Pearcy)
What's interesting is that Jesus answered Pilate's question in the very preceding chapter while praying to God - "Your word is truth" (John 17.16)
If I were an OBAMA; “ TRUTH IS WHAT I SAY IT IS”.
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