The True and Living God #3 By Dr. Tracey Wyatt In our earlier discussion of the true and living God, the atheist would tell us that God does not exist; the agnostic tentatively prescribes ideals of “truth” to something greater than man yet without a commitment to a knowable God. Bound up in this discussion of God’s existence is the concept of revealed, immutable, absolute truth. If one were to accept the notion of God, gods or a prophet of God, then one must confront the concept of truth. Otherwise, one is but a Deist….a rational belief in God but whose eternal purpose was not to disclose any truth through revelation or divine text. However, in the absence of revealed, immutable, absolute truth, anything less is but “cunning and crafty words of man” (Ephesians 4:14). Such “truth” was sought by the men of Athens, “All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas” (Acts 17:21). So the question in my last post, “why would one want to have a system of absolute truth in which to believe”? Scripture (Matthew 7:24-29) speaks to this very question: 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” 28 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, 29 because he taught as one who had AUTHORITY, and not as their teachers of the law”. As the scripture above points out, the quality of the house (values / truths) was not in question. It was the foundation upon which those values were constructed. If a foundation of human-centeredness then those values or truths are relative and adaptive to circumstances. If the values are, even as Carl Jung pointed out, reflections of the divine, then the values we hold up as standards are indeed immutable, absolute truths. No doubt, imperfect people do not have things all figured out, but that is hardly a fallacy of the concept. Next post, we will discuss the believer’s view, that there is one true and living God.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 01:24:25 +0000
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