"When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth." Jesus speaks these words to his disciples just prior to his arrest. And the subject of truth arises again during Jesus' trial. Jesus tells Pilate, "For this I was born... to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice." Pilate responds with a question that receives no answer. "What is truth?"
What is truth? Modern people are prone to think that truth is a matter of facts and figures. Many who insist that the Bible must be literally true get caught up in this modern understanding, imagining that the truth of the Bible rests on it being reliable from a historic or scientific standpoint. I find it mildly amusing that the very people who understand faith in opposition to science, nonetheless have a scientific understanding of what truth is.
If it takes the Spirit of truth to guide us into the truth, then it seems likely that the nature of this truth is much more than facts and figures. I wonder what truths the Spirit it trying to teach me that cannot be discovered simply by learning the right Bible verse or Church doctrine?
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