6.22.2009

Subjective Truth?

Excerpt from my latest post at Communitas Collective:

"What is TRUTH? Reality? Validity? Honesty? Loyalty? You can find those, and numerous other definitions in the dictionary. But I’ll be honest with you; I’ve always hated the word, if only because of the ways I’ve been beaten over the head with the concept by the religious establishment.

The only definition of “truth” many Christians hold to…

Strong’s Greek 225: “Objectively…the truth as taught in the Christian religion, respecting God and the execution of his purposes through Christ, and respecting the duties of man, opposing alike to the superstitions of the Gentiles and the inventions of the Jews, and the corrupt opinions and precepts of false teachers even among Christians.”

…while completely missing the other:

Strong’s Greek 225: “Subjectively…truth as a personal excellence; that candor of mind which is free from affection, pretence, simulation, falsehood, deceit.”

Read the rest HERE.



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4 comments:

  1. I read through your post at communitas. It is great to see you in the teacher role. That is where I see your natural talents lie. Plus you do it so well.
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  2. Dang Nate, you need to come around more often with stuff like that!

    OK, seriously, wow, thanks. I don't know, maybe I have a little of that. For the longest time I went around saying "I'm not a teacher" because all the "spiritual gifts inventories" I took said I didn't. Funny how much stake I put in that. Another cow hits the ground. Moo.
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  3. So what did the spiritual gifts inventories say you should be doing? I don't remember the spiritual gifts of insightfulness and articulation.
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  4. Oh you know Gary, they always said I had the gift of "encouragement" and no matter how much I read on the subject, I still wasn't sure what it meant. I think it meant I was so bad at everything that it was an encouragement to everyone else. :)
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