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Christians what is truth?

Not your truth but truth.

as i see it truth is a person (Jesus)

if I want to know truth i do what I do with everything else I want to know I research all the information I can get on the given subject.

What I'm saying is do you as a Christian do the same?

If so have you read all the Church Fathers?

Have you read the Didache ?

Have you read the Apostle of John St. Ignatius Of Antioch ? he was the first mention of the name Catholic church and dates 106 Ad. so we can assume the name Catholic was in use before this.

Here is a list of more.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Church_Father...

These are the first Christians and if you want to know the truth you have to read what the first Christians taught, as the gospels state not everything taught was put in writing, but passed on.

All agree on the Eucharist being the body of Christ as Paul made clear,and all agree on the authority of the Catholic Church.

You have to ask does your church have documents that go back to the first Christians and where did my church come from?

As you can read the Catholic church was founded in the first century and has remained to today as Christ said his church would and that he would be in it.

So not to drag on what is Truth?

If you can't trace what you believe in then it can't be truth as the gospel states hold fast to the traditions handed down, these Fathers recieved this tradition and it has been handed down.

Your truth and the truth can be two different things.

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  • Bruce
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Truth is the quality of a statement backed by irrefutable evidence.

    Where many people go wrong is in looking at evidence inappropriate to the question. For example, some people demand that all truth claims be subjected to empirical tests, i.e., by systematic scientific observations. However, many claims cannot be validated scientifically, for example, the statement that truth is obtained by systematic scientific observations, or the definition of truth.

    Two sources of evidence are routinely excluded. Evaluative claims must be tested by reference to evaluative standards. For example, a question about whether it is right or wrong to steal when you are hungry calls for judging hunger theft against the right to private property. Because hunger does not override the right to private property, hunger theft is wrong.

    The other excluded source of evidence is revelation. God communicates his messages to us through his prophets, i.e., holy men and woman of intense insight. God's revelations are nearly always vindicated by miracles, as a sort of stamp of divine authenticity. The greatest miracles in history illuminated the work and teachings of the Son of God, who, as you say, is the truth--the way, the truth, and the life.

    Cheers,

    Bruce

  • 1 decade ago

    Some say Jesus is the truth (as you already stated) but your question is what is truth what did Jesus want us to know and do am I right>?

    to know this you have to be looking for Jesus and all he taught to find out what it was he passed on through his chosen disciples, The Didache is written by the disciples and in it it says the Eucharist is the body of Christ, now this alone is a handed down tradition that was kept until the protestant reformers like Zwingli said that Christ could not be in two places at once! like what? so since then it has become a symbol something the first Christians would have excommunicated you for saying and did as it was an early Heresy also.

    So if Christ made clear and Paul made Clear and the first Christians made clear that this is the body of Christ and without it you have no life in you then you can see what great benefit Satan gained by taking millions of souls away from the source of life.

  • 1 decade ago

    Your thinking is so way off beam friend but you choose to question everyone elses truth. The way to become a Christian.. a Spirit filled Christian.. is outlined in John 3 v 3-5 as was taught to Zaccheus by Jesus. There is only one truth and that is it.... Once Born again... you have a relationship with the living God/Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit.... Please don't pretend to be some kind of authority on the truth ... just seek and keep seeking it until you find the answer... if you ever do!

    Best wishes, Mike.

  • 1 decade ago

    According GOD, in the Person of Jesus Christ, the truth is the teaching of the Catholic Church which He founded. He told its first leaders "whatsoever you bind upon earth is bound in heaven", and "the Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth", and "he who hears you hears Me". Which is why the Bible refers to the Catholic Church as "the pillar and foundation of truth". If truth exists at all, it must exist in the Catholic Church because truth can exist only in unity, and the hundreds of conflicting denominations of Protestantism therefore cannot possibly represent truth. Conflicting beliefs means false beliefs.

  • 1 decade ago

    Here is your answer

    Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.- John 14:6

    This is a very serious claim, there is a 50% chance for it to be true hence be the truth. Would you want to take a chance ?

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    each and every of the certainty is got here upon in the Holy Spirit. The bible is incomprehensible devoid of the Holy Spirit. except it is for useful ability yet i'm speaking from a non secular attitude. only by the Holy Spirit can somebody understand its meaning. The Holy Spirit may additionally show you extra in intensity. The oral custom for the hot testomony the parables have been recited by ability of Jesus extra cases than as quickly as. So the Disciples had time to earnings those memories or parables. there have been many followers to boot the 12 apostles. in specific situations dozens if no longer 1000's might convey at the same time at a time. So the myth have been interpeted many techniques. It became extra worry-loose to be attentive to extra beneficial than one language via mix of cultures. You had people who spoke Aramaic, Greek and different languages. look on the girl on the properly the place Jesus stayed for 3 days with the entire village. a distinctive custom than his very own. So there became interpetation to different languages with similiar meanings. yet in ever case there are exceptions so as that the belief or the component is known. Like my spouse is from a distinctive custom and we communicate distinctive languages and her bible has somewhat distinctive meanings than mine. the belief of the meaning is there. additionally for the period of the time of Jesus there have been distinctive sects of Jews. only like Christianity has distinctive denominations. Pharisee, Sudacee and there have been others. As for the previous testomony oral custom i don't be attentive to. Moses observed the lower back of God and became in a position to place in writing down each and every thing from creation to the time of his day. so as that somewhat shows the means of God. there is not any disadvantage of what the Spirit of God can do. Jesus is the sabbath. accepted is Holy. Or extra desirable understood such as you have the Holy Spirit so everday is Holy. the main mandatory ingredient is you have the Holy Spirit. human beings dont understand each and every thing. Thier are to many doctrines or church homes. the sole certainty that out wieghs all of it and teaches you the certainty is following the Holy Spirit. Even Jesus informed us that.

  • 1 decade ago

    Christian Theology is not limited to history or a recitation of facts. It is a profound gift of love, compassion and understanding that flows from the Holy Spirit and into our hearts creating a higher understanding

  • 1 decade ago

    The truth is found in the Bible. No more things need be added to what has been written by the apostles and first century Christians who were inspired by God's holy spirit.

    The apostles actually detected a spirit of rebellion and false teaching while they were alive and were inspired to write to warn us that there was going to be an apostasy after their death.

    Any claim that there were things not in the Scriptures but were passed down by word of mouth and should be followed is part of that apostasy that was prophesied. The apostasy took complete control when the Roman government took over the church by decree at the council of Nicea in 325 C.E..

    Some today refuse to look into the Scriptures for themselves. They believe the apostasy teachings because they are told to and it is convenient for them because they have been told that if they just follow blindly their soul will go to heaven the moment they die. They cling to a 1,700 year old tradition invented by the Roman council of Nicea instead of studying the Bible for themselves. The Roman emperor coerced a certain faction of so-called christian leaders to bend over and become the harlot of Revelation 17:1, 2. The apostles were very well aware that this would happen after they all died, for they actually saw it beginning before they died.

    2 Thessalonians 2:3-7 says Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

    4who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

    5Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?

    6And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.

    7For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.

    The pagan Romans wanted to continue observing their practices dedicated to disgusting false gods that Christ and his Father hate, so they accumulated for themselves the harlotrous religious leaders to fashion so called christian names and reasons to continue observing the practices disgusting to the true God.

    2 Timothy 4:3 says For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires.

    The apostle John was the last one to be in the way of "the man of lawlessness" (the Roman emperor and his successors) and knew that true worship was ending and the apostasy would quickly set in after his death.

    1 John 2:18 says Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

    The trinity god was a Roman god that became one of the disgusting things renamed as christian at the council of Nicea.

    The Jehovah's Witnesses are not the only ones who know these facts. Anyone who studies the history of religion and the Bible will quickly learn these facts. Then, if they want to truly serve God and not merely follow their religious leaders blindly, they will leave off and no longer believe the lie of the pagan trinity god. There is of course those who want an easy and convenient god that does not require them to do anything but merely says 'just say you believe and you will have life after death in heaven'

    2 Thessalonians 2:11 says For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie.

    Source(s): partially copied from another R&S dude
  • 1 decade ago

    Truth is beauty, of course.

    Truth has a way of bending to circumstance (ibid. Aquinas and the Just War Theory)

    Source(s): And everything is beautiful in its own way.
  • 1 decade ago

    John 17:17

    Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

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