Now We Can Live in the Truth :: John 16:5-15
What is truth? I’ve been asking various people this question all week. And everyone I asked gave me the same quizzical look. What is truth? (Jn 18:38) Pontius Pilate’s famous rhetorical question of our Lord Jesus moments before he ordered his crucifixion is still being asked by the world today. They question what is truth. But I am confident you actually do know what is truth because, as Jesus said in our Gospel reading today from John 16 ... THE SPIRIT OF THE TRUTH WILL GUIDE US IN ALL THE TRUTH 1. Before we tackle this theologically, let’s answer the question with the world’s definition. Webster’s dictionary says truth is a conformity to fact ... a state of being ... the alignment between a belief or a thought and the way things really are. Philosophically, our world says, there are at least four kinds of truth: 1) Objective, 2) Subjective, 3) Normative, and 4) Theological. Objective truth comes from facts that remain true regardless of personal belief or emotion. 1 + 1...