Truth Re-visited

What is Truth?

This seems to be the post modern question of this age. It should be the
church's responsibility to jump on this topic, with the "full armor of God".
Once people understand just what truth is and where is comes from, a new
foundation can be established. The truth does not come from the horizontal
wisdom of man, it has to come from outside our space-time domain, or it is
redeemed as "relative truth", which is not truth. Without absolute truth,
there can be no distinction between morals and ethics.

Ethics and Morals.

In present word usage the term ethics is often used interchangeably with the
word morals or morality. That the two have become virtual synonyms is a
sign of the confusion that permeates the modern ethical scene. Historically,
the two words had quite distinctive meanings. Ethics comes from the Greek
ethos, which is derived from the root word meaning "stall," a place for
horses. It conveyed the sense of a dwelling place, a place of stability and
permanence. On the other hand, morality comes from the word mores,
which describes the behavioral patterns of a given society.
Ethics is a normative science, searching for the principal foundations that
prescribe obligations or "oughtness." It is concerned primarily with the
imperative and with the philosophical premises upon which imperatives are
based. Morality is a descriptive science, concerned with "isness" and the
indicative. Morals describe what people do; ethics define what people
ought to do. The difference between them is between the normal and the
normative.

Ethics
normative
imperative
oughtness
absolute

Morals
descriptive
indicative
isness
relative

When morality is identified with ethics, the normal becomes the normative
and the imperative is swallowed by the status quo. This creates a kind of
"statistical morality." In this schema the good is determined by the normal
and the normal is determined by the statistical average. The "norm" is
discovered by an analysis of the normal, or by counting noses. Conformity
to that norm then becomes the ethical obligation. It works like this:
When we lookup the two terms: ethics and morals in the dictionary, we get
the WRONG definitions, because the secular world equates them as
synonyms.
Much of the "self help" systems are based on morals as opposed to
absolute ethics.

The Ultimate Truth.

The Ultimate Truth is a Person: the identity of Jesus Christ. He was the
most anti-religious person who has ever walked the Earth! It's not about
religion: it's about relationship. It is the most important discovery of your
life: your eternal destiny depends upon it!

(John 14:6 NASB)
6 Jesus said to him, "I am athe way, and bthe truth, and cthe life; no
one comes to the Father but through Me.

Jesus said, "I am the way." He is not just a person who shows the way, but
He, personally, is the way. No church or ceremony can bring you to God.
Only Christ can bring you to God. He is the way. Either you have Christ or
you don't have Him; either you trust Him or you don't. Also Jesus said that
He is the truth. He isn't saying that He tells the truth, although He does do
that. He is the truth! He is the bureau of standards for truth, the very
touchstone of truth. And He is the life. He isn't simply stating that He is
alive. He is the source, the origin of life from the lowest vegetable plane of
life to the highest spiritual plane of life.

Also: http://john-14-6.com/john-14-6.pdf

And:

What Is Truth? - Video Series

http://bibleweb.info/Bibleweb.Info-What-Is-Truth.pdf

- How do we know what is really true?
- How do we know that the Bible is true?
- How sure can we be?

We live in a skeptical environment, where even the very existence
of truth is questioned. Lately, the Bible - and even the Lord Jesus
Himself - has been under attack.

Join us as we examine the boundaries of our reality,
explore ways to qualify sources of information, and offer
advice on testing hypothesis, and reveals the source
of Ultimate Truth.


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