If God Is truth
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If God is truth
If God is truth
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 423-24
ἀλήθεια (alētheia), ας (as), ἡ (hē): n.fem.; ≡ DBLHebr 622; Str 225; TDNT 1.232—LN 70.3–70.4 truth, i.e., that which is in accord with what really happens, facts that correspond to a reality, whether historical (in the time/space continuum) (Lk 4:25; Ac 4:27), or an eternal reality not limited to historical fact
Why is truth so important?
why are facts important
Can truth be relevant?
Truth is absolute
Where does truth come from?
morals?
You can’t have a law without a law giver
Jesus = Word
Satan Father of lies
The students calculated that the odds against one person fulfilling all eight prophecies are astronomical-one in ten to the 21st power (1021). To illustrate that number, Stoner gave the following example: “First, blanket the entire Earth land mass with silver dollars 120 feet high. Second, specially mark one of those dollars and randomly bury it. Third, ask a person to travel the Earth and select the marked dollar, while blindfolded, from the trillions of other dollars.”¹k;l
The eight prophecies we’ve reviewed about the Messiah were written by men from different times and places between about 500 and 1,000 years before Jesus was born. Thus there was no opportunity for collusion among them. Notice too, the specificity.
Importance of Truth
Bible scholars tell us that nearly 300 references to 61 specific prophecies of the Messiah were fulfilled by Jesus Christ. The odds against one person fulfilling that many prophecies would be beyond all mathematical possibility. It could never happen, no matter how much time was allotted. One mathematician’s estimate of those impossible odds is “one chance in a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion.”³
Most documented
Case for Christ
"The quantity of New Testament material is almost embarrassing in comparison with other works of antiquity," he said. "Next to the New Testament, the greatest amount of manuscript testimony is of Homer's Iliad, which was the bible of the ancient Greeks. There are fewer than 650 Greek manuscripts of it today. Some are quite fragmentary. They come down to us from the second and third century A.D. and following. When you consider that Homer composed his epic about 800 B.C., you can see there's a very lengthy gap." "
"Very lengthy" was an understatement; it was a thousand years! There was in fact no comparison: the manuscript evidence for the New Testament was overwhelming when juxtaposed against other revered writings of antiquity-works that modern scholars have absolutely no reluctance treating as authentic.
ἀλήθεια (alētheia), ας (as), ἡ (hē): n.fem.; ≡ DBLHebr 622; Str 225; TDNT 1.232—LN 70.3–70.4 truth, i.e., that which is in accord with what really happens, facts that correspond to a reality, whether historical (in the time/space continuum) (Lk 4:25; Ac 4:27), or an eternal reality not limited to historical fact
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8
John 8:
Truth and us
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
John 8:
I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
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Truth is that we need the word
what does it say about us
we need the perfect combo of truth and spirit
Jesus and Spirit
Partly because the enemy is the father of lies
dressed like an angel of light
Roaring lion
Truth and the world
Truth is not a feeling
there is absolute truth
denying something doesn’t make it not real
Truth is they are decieved
truth is people would rather fix outside problems then fix themselves
changing physical instead of internal
blaming others and raging instead of self
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For all have sinned and
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Truth could save from eternal death not temporary pleasure
World and us
Friendship with world emnity
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1John
Truth is love
Truth could save from eternal death not temporary pleasure
Our experience and truth of God should result in sharing
Not bashing
Loving, graceful, caring Jesus