That is still a good question. “What is the truth?”Jesus said to Pilate, "... the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth.
Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" - John 18:37-38 NIV
Still a good question.
Absolute truth - Do we know what it is?
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Welcome to the forum. Thanks for joining the discussion.That is still a good question. “What is the truth?”
"The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked."
-- Umberto Eco
thank God. I love what you said and see your point of not being saved through certainty. It’s all so confusing. Like a man who doubts being tossed about on the sea, driven like a wave pushed around by every wind of doctrine. But then at the same time I do know I doubt. A lot. So I understand what you said about certainty.We are saved by grace through FAITH... not saved by grace through CERTAINTY.
Thanks.thank God. I love what you said and see your point of not being saved through certainty. It’s all so confusing. Like a man who doubts being tossed about on the sea, driven like a wave pushed around by every wind of doctrine. But then at the same time I do know I doubt. A lot. So I understand what you said about certainty.
I love this little vignette from sci-fi writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's book, Escape From Hell. This is the sequel to their book Inferno, which is about a science fiction writer who, after his death from a drunken fall during a sci-fi convention, gets sent to Dante's version of Hell. (I had to read Dante's Inferno for a Western Literature course in college and ran across Niven and Pournelle's 1980's reboot in the bookstore.)Jesus said to Pilate, "... the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth.
Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" - John 18:37-38 NIV
Still a good question.
Like counterfeit currency, I suppose. If you know the real thing, a counterfeit is pretty easy to spot.
I love this little vignette from sci-fi writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's book, Escape From Hell. This is the sequel to their book Inferno, which is about a science fiction writer who, after his death from a drunken fall during a sci-fi convention, gets sent to Dante's version of Hell. (I had to read Dante's Inferno for a Western Literature course in college and ran across Niven and Pournelle's 1980's reboot in the bookstore.)
So, our heroic sci-fi writer Allen Carpentier and his muse, poet Sylvia Plath, are moving around Hell and run across Pontius Pilate in the Pit of the Liars...
PILATE: I once asked one who knew, "What is Truth?" I didn't wait for an answer. I was told I must wander about this pit and learn until he comes back to answer the question I asked him.
SYLVIA: I would think the Pit of Liars would be last place to go to learn about Truth.
PILATE: Or the first. Think about it.
ALLEN: What have you learned about Truth?
PILATE: I've learned much about Lies. Deceit comes in many forms. With so much deceit, what Truth remains?
There's something profound it that.