What is the truth?

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I asked out loud one day and out came the reply, “that which has always been.”
 
The truth? Pontius Pilate did ask the same question. So what is the truth?

The truth is that God love us and so much that He did send His own Son to suffer and die for our sins. God love us so much that He gave us a Church, The true Body of His only Son, where we can confess sins no human would forgive or even understand and receive the most Holy of all Holy Sacraments, Communion, Christ Flesh and Blood.

And where do we find the truth? In The Gospels. Who ever seek the truth will find them in The Bible. That is the truth.
 
Truth is received in a state of sincere humility.
Truth is granted by God to those who submit.
Seeking truth is God’s goal for man.
Truth washes the soul in the same manner as pure love and forgiveness.
Truth is not measured or validated by man or science and is not bound by the concepts of fact, logic or rationale. Truth is self-evident.
The truth is Jesus. Jesus is truth.
 
Love…

Love is the core of the law and the Prophets. (Mt 22:36-40)
Love is greater than Faith or Hope (1 Cor 13:1-13)
Love is the commandment given by Christ to the Apostles and it is by this that the world will know that we are disciples of Christ. (John 13:34-35)
Love is the very essence of God (1 John 4:7-8)

Given these things, it can be seen that all of Creation stems from God’s Love - and that Love is the "glue - the essential building block - the core - the root - the food and the fuel - of all that is.

Peace
James
 
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We don’t know what language Pilate used to speak to Jesus but if Pilate spoke in Latin, “QUID EST VERITAS?” (“What is truth?”) an anagram of this is “EST VIR QUI ADEST”–“It is the man who stands before you.”
 
JRKH said:
Love…

Love is the core of the law and the Prophets. (Mt 22:36-40)
Love is greater than Faith or Hope (1 Cor 13:1-13)
Love is the commandment given by Christ to the Apostles and it is by this that the world will know that we are disciples of Christ. (John 13:34-35)
Love is the very essence of God (1 John 4:7-8)

Given these things, it can be seen that all of Creation stems from God’s Love - and that Love is the "glue - the essential building block - the core - the root - the food and the fuel - of all that is.

Peace
James
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Hmm… I would add that God is Love (1 John 4:8), so in addition to these, God is truth.
 
Truth is all that is not false, all that is consonant with God’s creation and it’s order, all that opposes lies. And, as Aquinas stated, “All truth is God’s truth”.
 
Was Pilot asking “what is truth” or “what is the truth”?
Two different questions.

Just a thought.
 
John 18:38 Pilate saith to him; What is truth? And when he had said this, he went forth again to the Jews, and saith to them; I find no cause in him.
 
thistle said:
We don’t know what language Pilate used to speak to Jesus but if Pilate spoke in Latin, “QUID EST VERITAS?” (“What is truth?”) an anagram of this is “EST VIR QUI ADEST”–“It is the man who stands before you.”
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Ok, THAT is seriously cool! 🙂
 
Truth as the Western world uses the word is simply that which is, or reality unveiled.
The world truth in the Hebrew sense as seen sometimes in the Old Testament, as the scholars of the Bible say, has quite a different meaning.
But these ideas are irrelevant to the Gospel of St. John, who spoke of the truth often, unlike the other Gospels. Truth first of all refers there to what Jesus revealed for men’s salvation. So John’s Prologue says Jesus is full of truth (Jn 1:14) and that grace and truth came through Jesus Christ (Jn 1:17). The posters who speak of God’s love on this thread are correct when they speak of it as truth because the immensity of God’s love is something that was revealed, revealed by Jesus, for men’s salvation. Truth secondly also is Jesus himself, as was pointed out here already. St. Bonaventure remarked that Pontius Pilate asked Jesus what truth is, but then he did not wait for an answer. But, St. Bonaventure said, Jesus had already said what truth is when he said "I am the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus could say he is the truth itself, because he is divine, because God is the truth itself, the primal source of all being and all reality, of all that exists.
 
I have heard it said that the truth is a Person … and that Person is Jesus Christ. God bless you.
 
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