"What is Truth?"

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There are so many people in the world with different ideas of what we are doing here that it is very confusing.

Are we all looking for God even though to many of us we don't know that is He we are looking and longing for?


Is that the one thing in life that we should be doing?

Can we summarize God as Truth or "The Truth, The Life & The Way." 

If God is all those things then is our quest in life to find God through obtaining Truth?
Lots of love,
Terry
 
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Hello Everybody,
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There are so many people in the world with different ideas of what we are doing here that it is very confusing.

Are we all looking for God even though to many of us we don't know that is He we are looking and longing for?


Is that the one thing in life that we should be doing?

Can we summarize God as Truth or "The Truth, The Life & The Way." 

If God is all those things then is our quest in life to find God through obtaining Truth?
Lots of love,
Terry
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If God is Truth, can God be obtained? Or is it that Trust just is; that God just is? Does ones perceptions of Truth alter Truth? Or is it that one can allow his perceptions to be altered by Truth? If one seeks for Truth will he find it, if he does is it God?

I think anyone can surmise anything he wishes. God is Truth. God is Love. God is mercy. To equate God to a single thing may suggest that this single thing is the total encompassing of God. The eastern Christian theologians from way back saw this as a failing in talking about God and came up with Negative Theology. Instead if saying what God is, say what He is not. For He is everything that He is not.

God is not deceitful. In Him there is no malice.
 
Thanks for the reply … you see, what I am thinking is that is our lives are quests for God then whatever we do so be also.

So if a person writes a song, it should be to reveal a truth or a person writes a book, then it should be to reveal a truth … doctors find the truth as to what we are ill from etc.

This may seem very elementary but in this world we have been inundated with too much, too many options, too many opinions etc.

what does everybody think?

Terry
 
I think that we yearn for God. When we look inside ourselves we see an irreducible and eternal seed and we ask why; why are we here, where are we going when we die, why we live. God provides an answer to these questions and calls to us through all of time. We are called into unity with him and we travel towards that unity.

We enquire about God because we seek the deepest meaning of our being. We enquire about Christ because we seek a solid, personal and historical foundation for the God we find deep in our being and we enquire about the Church because we seek to institutionalise and communicate our understanding of Christ.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church begins by explaining that God, freely created man to make him “share in his own blessed life.” [CCC 1]. It explains that because of this act of creation, an outpouring of love, God draws close to man:

“at every time and in every place. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church.” [CCC 1]

True happiness- true purpose- is found when one is in unity with God.
 
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I think that we yearn for God. True happiness- true purpose- is found when one is in unity with God.
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Very nice.

His plan was to raise men to a participation of the divine life. - Lumen Gentium 2

His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes for life and devotion, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and power. Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire. - 2 Peter 1:3, 4
 
You see what I’m after is what G.K. Chesterton calls “the narrowing of the mind” … as we think, we process and sort out what is good and necessary.

In a day, we can take so many different paths but if we had one goal, the decisions and choices would be obvious.

If a person knows they are going to die shortly, they set about to “set their house” and affairs in order.

So what are we all truly after? Once we know that then our decisions will reflect that goal.
 
God is Truth and the Truth cannot be changed. Many people think that they define the Truth themselves simply by believing something. The Truth cannot be defined or developed, it just is and it is for us to discover and either accept or reject.
 
In math, there is a discussion of “absolute truth”, and it boils down to one absolute definitive question either it IS or it is NOT. In philosophy, any statement either is True or It is False, and for religion either God exisits or He does not.

For me Truth (or the final moment of Truth) takes place the few seconds after physical death when we each find out whether God exists or He doesn’t.

I find it interesting and appropriate, and not just coincidendal that God chose His name to be "I AM "… or “I exist”.

The name of God tells us all we need to know.
 
It is good to see you on the forums TerryPaul

Jesus is the Truth and He seeks us so that we may seek Him.

I have always believed that there has to be Absolute Truth if there is to be any ‘truth’ at all because truth is not objective or a personal ‘thing’ but it is a living reality for all men.

All too often the search for truth is a stripping away of a pile of excuses we have formed as opinions or have inherited from others which eventually leads to Jesus and to reach Jesus we must take up our Cross.

People are entitled to have their opinions, but it matters diddly squat what their opinion is because there is Absolute Truth. Someone who is seeking to form their opinions will always seek the truth and often, when they find the truth, swerve away from it when it does not tally up with their long held opinions. It can take time to accept the Truth and often people have to sacrifice in order to accept the Truth, it is always humbling.

Pride can be a huge issue as well.

I think what you are addressing here is more a matter of formation of the conscience, if this is not developed then this is what dulls the mind to the truth and people form opinions and personal so-called truths and apply it as an Absolute Truth when of course, it is not. A man however must be true to his conscience and always seek to develop his conscience. We can do no violence to the conscience.

It never does any good to deliver the long lecture on the Truth especially when the person hearing does not have a developed conscience. It is far better to say a few words and leave them to think about that or to say nothing at all and live the Gospel with your life. In the short term they will not have been told the answers of the truth but they will have had planted in them a seed which will cause them to think about and seek those answers themselves or what they have witnessed by the way someone lives their lives and has treated them.

I have seen this in my own life and have learned it is better to say less, pray a great deal and love with all your heart.

Only the Holy Spirit enlightens men to the truth and we must call upon Him to do the work only He can do and all we need do is pray, be obedient and persevering in faith no matter how difficult it may become.

It is the case that a man needs many crosses before he comes to the Truth, Christ Jesus. Suffering causes us to grow in love and obedience.

Jesus has revealed ‘*** I AM**, the Way, the Truth and the Life’*, therefore everything that the Master does and tells us to do so we too, as servants and friends, must do all He asks even to the cross, to be like Him.

One Voice, one Hope, one Truth, Christ Jesus.
 
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