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How can we tell what is right from what is wrong? How can we tell what is the Truth.?
Is there Truth?
The The first question we need to answer is: Is there such a thing as Truth (with a capital 'T')?
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However, a world where there is no absolute truth, makes no sense. We can even say it is impossible to exist.
Let's look at the physical world? Is there absolute laws?
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These are absolutes. If you walk off a cliff, it doesn't matter if you believe in Gravity or not, you'll fall.
Imagine we live in a world where Gravity wasn't consistent. Sometimes we fall, sometimes we float up, sometimes we move side to side and everything is random. Do you think we can live in a world like that? I believe, it'll be impossible.
Same applies to morality.
If we look at the Bible we see something interesting. We see a natural law, which was violated, a consquence which took placeconsequence which resulted from this violation, and a redemptive action which had to be undertaken to correct the situationrestore man.
- Humanity sinned against God, and became infected with sin.
- The wages of sin is death
- God had to take what's ours (the sin) and give us what is his (eternal life)
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We can say then: Truth is a reflection of the Nature of God.
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14 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many [a]mansions; if it were not so, [b]I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.” 5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. |
Jesus (God the Son) declares himself as "The Truth".
In order to walk in truth we need to know who God is. We'll talk a bit more about how we can know God, but it really isn't really t hard. In fact it's probably something we've heard many, many times.
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- We started by posing commons situations which we face in school and we asked how can we tell what's right or wrong
- Before we could answer that question we first had to talk about Truth and if it really existed. And we said if there is no absolute truth, then the world we live in will not be even possible.
- We said Truth is the Nature of God; to know God is to know truth. The closer we are to him the clearer our understand of the truth becomes
- We talked about the importance of knowing the truth.
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And He has made from one [j]blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ |
- We finished up with some practical steps to know the Truth.