{"id":271,"date":"2011-10-14T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T00:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/isittheendoftheworld\/?p=271"},"modified":"2011-10-14T20:47:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T00:47:15","slug":"what-is-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/isittheendoftheworld\/2011\/10\/what-is-truth.html","title":{"rendered":"What is Truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One can imagine Pontius Pilate, elegant and earthy at the same time, asking Jesus to tell him how to find truth.<\/p>\n

This is the great unknown in our world. Jesus, the Christ, said in John 14:6 that He is the way, the truth, and the life. Humans though have a great capacity for explaining away virtually anything. Just the other day, I read where a scholar has said that we must re-think what Jesus was really saying here.<\/p>\n

And to think, for 2,000 years it seemed plain that He was claiming to Ultimate Reality.<\/p>\n

The various religions, including the new Emergent community within American evangelicalism (growing by leaps and bounds!), often claims there is no absolute truth.<\/p>\n

Yet I would invite you to read the Bible through and see if that is so. <\/p>\n

If you are looking for it.<\/p>\n

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