The Truth is not a ‘what’ but a ‘who’ and that who is Jesus. John 14:6 Jesus said “I am The Way, The Truth and The Life and no man comes to the Father but by Me…..
Thank you for this beautiful piece, Dr. Francis, for the tenderness and fierceness of "The Hounds of Heaven". I kept re-reading lines to savour their depth.
The past week+ I have been over-consuming bad news, and repented of that foolishness earlier this morning, knowing that I was buckling under all those dreadful burdens of information.
Reading this soul cleansing and perspective awakening Palm Sunday Reflection felt like a spiritual 'cleanse' prompting me to worship and wonder at "this tremendous Lover".
The greatest characteristic of the human race is not its pursuit of Truth, but its visceral rejection of it.
This occurs even in the realm of what Paul described as "science so-called," which sings its siren song in most cases not to the philosopher or the seeker after truth, but to the highest bidder, ie those who can pay the most to have their own corrupted versions of truth disseminated to the masses.
Need we remind ourselves of how its public faces comported themselves during the recent "health emergency" we all supposedly faced?
The very subject itself is predicated by very definition on a world formed without the great God Who created it; and it relies therefore on blind chance and random events to assemble it, which can never be responsible for any of the things which our consciences, seared though they are with sin and rebellion, understand to be necessary for a satisfying explanation of who we are, and why we are here, and where we are going, and by Whose commandment.
It limits its investigations to the "How?" and studiously ignores the "Why?" which a child demands to know, but the adult forgets to ask.
The moral law mentioned, which supposedly is engraved on every heart, oftentimes throughout the ages has found its expression in orgy, and the slaughter of even our own babies to dark entities by no means synonymous with the great God Whom we know to be the true fountain of life and light and understanding.
All comes into sharp focus with the response of Pilate to the One Who came before him, Whom instead of honouring and worshipping, he scourged and washed his hands of, before releasing Him to the baying mob for crucifixion.
Had his knowledge of Latin been a little more flexible, he might have understood that the very question he asked of Him, ie "Quid est veritas?" could be reassembled to state, "Vir qui est adest."
Thank you. What is truth? It is the 'T' ruth where the T is the cross, the tree of Christ on which he hung and 'ruth' meaning 'compassion', so the compassion of the cross.
It saddens me to think that otherwise intelligent men can suspend their gifts of analysis and reason to conclude that a mythical entity called God is the source of all truth. I believe that religions are the most successful purveyors of ideas that infest the minds of millions to create a mass formation psychosis across time and space.
A myth is a story. Life is about stories, I have a story, you have a story. Stories make up history, hi-story, this is why we have the word. So what is the myth you believe, how did all that exists, seen and unseen, come into being without a designer?
Believe in whatever you want. The Bible means nothing to me and basing arguments on its words only shows that you have limited your mind to a single source of “truth”. There are trillions of other words written in millions of other books that contain much more wisdom than your Bible. I have written two of them.
The Truth is not a ‘what’ but a ‘who’ and that who is Jesus. John 14:6 Jesus said “I am The Way, The Truth and The Life and no man comes to the Father but by Me…..
Thank you for this beautiful piece, Dr. Francis, for the tenderness and fierceness of "The Hounds of Heaven". I kept re-reading lines to savour their depth.
The past week+ I have been over-consuming bad news, and repented of that foolishness earlier this morning, knowing that I was buckling under all those dreadful burdens of information.
Reading this soul cleansing and perspective awakening Palm Sunday Reflection felt like a spiritual 'cleanse' prompting me to worship and wonder at "this tremendous Lover".
The greatest characteristic of the human race is not its pursuit of Truth, but its visceral rejection of it.
This occurs even in the realm of what Paul described as "science so-called," which sings its siren song in most cases not to the philosopher or the seeker after truth, but to the highest bidder, ie those who can pay the most to have their own corrupted versions of truth disseminated to the masses.
Need we remind ourselves of how its public faces comported themselves during the recent "health emergency" we all supposedly faced?
The very subject itself is predicated by very definition on a world formed without the great God Who created it; and it relies therefore on blind chance and random events to assemble it, which can never be responsible for any of the things which our consciences, seared though they are with sin and rebellion, understand to be necessary for a satisfying explanation of who we are, and why we are here, and where we are going, and by Whose commandment.
It limits its investigations to the "How?" and studiously ignores the "Why?" which a child demands to know, but the adult forgets to ask.
The moral law mentioned, which supposedly is engraved on every heart, oftentimes throughout the ages has found its expression in orgy, and the slaughter of even our own babies to dark entities by no means synonymous with the great God Whom we know to be the true fountain of life and light and understanding.
All comes into sharp focus with the response of Pilate to the One Who came before him, Whom instead of honouring and worshipping, he scourged and washed his hands of, before releasing Him to the baying mob for crucifixion.
Had his knowledge of Latin been a little more flexible, he might have understood that the very question he asked of Him, ie "Quid est veritas?" could be reassembled to state, "Vir qui est adest."
Well said, and I much appreciate that anagram at the end. I find much truth in anagrams.
Thanks very very much Sir for your quite brillant work.
Not to be seen anywhere since forever, reminding me of the mental stimulation of my university english classes .
What a beautiful message. Thank you.
Thank you. What is truth? It is the 'T' ruth where the T is the cross, the tree of Christ on which he hung and 'ruth' meaning 'compassion', so the compassion of the cross.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/t-is-for-truth/
It saddens me to think that otherwise intelligent men can suspend their gifts of analysis and reason to conclude that a mythical entity called God is the source of all truth. I believe that religions are the most successful purveyors of ideas that infest the minds of millions to create a mass formation psychosis across time and space.
So you don't believe in an ultimate designer of the universe then?
No.. I don’t. It’s a myth
A myth is a story. Life is about stories, I have a story, you have a story. Stories make up history, hi-story, this is why we have the word. So what is the myth you believe, how did all that exists, seen and unseen, come into being without a designer?
The designer is a myth. Creation began as a tiny mad idea in a singularity of consciousness. Read ACIM.
All design starts with a tiny idea, be it mad or not. To have an idea requires a mind which is part of a designer.
The word creation implies a creator, someone who designs and makes.
This is why it is written
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Believe in whatever you want. The Bible means nothing to me and basing arguments on its words only shows that you have limited your mind to a single source of “truth”. There are trillions of other words written in millions of other books that contain much more wisdom than your Bible. I have written two of them.