What is Truth regarding God?

What is Truth?

“My kingdom does not belong to this world.  If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews.  But as it is, my kingdom is not here.”  So Pilate said to him, “Then you are a king?  Jesus answered, “You say I am a king.  For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.  Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”  Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” (Jn. 18: 36 - 38).

The very essence of this statement begins with the first sin man committed.  God did not create anything evil.  “And so it happened.  God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good.”  (Gen 1: 30 b - 31).  But, since man failed in respecting God’s command, this was sin against the divine.  And because God planned that man would live forever with him he had to establish the only way to accomplish this.  There became a penalty that needed to be paid.  However, since the sin was against the divine person of God, only a divine person would be able to pay this ransom.  There was no other divine entity except God himself.  He then paid the price that released man’s fault.  God entered the world of humanity, taking on the person of a man through the Incarnation.  Herein the way to forgiveness and our ultimate salvation would come through him suffering and dying and opening the way to eternal life with himself after rising from the dead.  This is truth.

During his ministry Jesus explained this essence of himself;  “I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.”  (Jn 14: 6).”Truth.”

“No one has ever seen God.  The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him.” 

(Jn 1: 18).  Already we understand the reality of Jesus and his Father are one.  “Truth.”  

From Exodus, when God was sending Moses to Egypt to bring the nation of Israel home, Moses asked God, “When they ask me who has sent me, how shall I respond?  God replied, “I AM who am.  Then he added, "This is what you shall say to the Israeites:  I AM sent me to you.”   (Ex 3: 13 - 14).  “Truth.”

The Pharisees exclaimed to Jesus during a dialogue;  “You are not yet 50 years old and you have seen Abraham?  Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.”  (Jn 8: 57 -58).  “Truth.”

Jesus then said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  (Jn 8: 31 - 32).  “Truth.”

A most adherent truth to what Jesus was expounding on when speaking about himself  being truth.  The truth is explained in God’s forgiveness via the Incarnation and crucifixion.  God is Truth as lived through his Son Jesus Christ.  There is no misunderstanding to this essence of him being truth Incarnate.  

However, since many of the teachings that came through Jesus’ ministry, we can assume that our take away from all of that can also be attributed to the direction within the lives of all his followers; those who believe.  This same truth or the adherence to its deeper meaning must also be applied to our modern rules as written within our Bill of Rights.  For as many people that do not believe in the truth as Jesus speaks about, many more than that are siding with Washington DC and our present leaders who want to remove the truth found in the Constitution of the United States, and destroy the right of freedom to speak and worship as our Forefathers decreed. 

This again is the Satanic influence corrupting the very desire of God’s people to be free.  Beware of the many false prophets that Jesus warned us about.  “Many false prophets will arise and deceive many, and because of the evildoing, the love of many will grow cold.  But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.  And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come.”  (Mt 24:11 -14).

Ralph B. Hathaway