[Alamo-Girl]

Wow. What an outstanding, illuminating essay-post, dearest sister in Christ! Thank you!

For me to be able to “define” Truth, I would have to be able somehow to stand “outside” of it. And if I were capable of doing that, then you would have no reason to trust anything I had to say….

But I am not capable of doing that; i.e., of standing outside Truth; for I believe that it constitutes the fundamental structure of Reality that includes me “as part and participant.”

Indeed!

Only God knows objective truth. Only He speaks it.

When God says something, it is. It is because He says it.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. - Genesis 1:3

And again,

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. - Psalms 33:6

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. [There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is not heard. – Psalms 19:1-3

I aver that is why God cannot lie. When He says something, it is.

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; - Titus 1:2

God's Name is I AM.

[Quix]

Well put.

Thx for the ping.

[betty boop]

When God says something, it is. It is because He says it.... God cannot lie. When He says something, it is.

Oh dearest sister in Christ, this is the Truth — the Logos, the Word of God spoken in the Beginning:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. — John 1–3

Also, God's Name is I AM. He is the ultimate foundation that unifies being and knowing: For "In him was life, and the life was the light of men."

Meditating on the Names of God can be highly instructive.

Thank you ever so much for your beautiful essay/post — and for your kind words!