Tag: truth
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Remaining in the Truth
(Outline of devotional given to the Men’s Group of Ikthus East – Bacolod City last July 6, 2019) 1 John 2:24-27 ESV [24] Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. […]
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Share the Truth or Lose It
And therefore, Lord, your judgments are terrible, because your truth is not my property nor the property of this man or that man; it belongs to all of us whom you publicly call into communion with it, warning us in most terrible terms that we must not hold it as private to ourselves lest we […]
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Truth is a Gift
“I am the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6) Truth is a Person who upholds all truthful propositions, ensuring that they correspond to reality. How? By holding all reality together. (Colossians 1:17) Coherence, then correspondence, and therefore truth. In a sense, truth is subjective. But, experience-wise, there is enough commonality to suggest that truth […]
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Scrupulous Reserve
In his book Principles of Conduct: Aspects of Biblical Ethics John Murray writes about the reserve required of a truthful person: No warning or plea is more germane to the question of truth than that we cultivate the reserve and exercise the caution whereby we shall be preserved from rash and precipitate judgments and from […]
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True for You, But Not for Me?
Here’s how N. T. Wright, in his book Simply Christian, deals with the “It’s true for you, but not for me” dismissal of the Christian faith: Saying “It’s true for you” sounds fine and tolerant. But it only works because it’s twisting the word “true” to mean, not “a true revelation of the way things […]
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