Chasing Truth
July 21, 2024

Chasing Truth - Sunday, July 21st 2024

John 8:31–32 NIV
31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Lies we are told:
1. Truth doesn’t exist.
2. Everything is relative.
3. There are no absolutes.
4. It’s all a matter of opinion.
5. You ought not to judge.
6. Religion is about faith, not facts.

“we love the truth when it

us, but we hate it when it us.” —Augustine

John 18:37–38 ESV
37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” 38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.

TRUTH is not

.
TRUTH is .

TRUTHS ABOUT TRUTH
1. Truth is

, not invented. It exists independent of anyone’s knowledge of it.
2. Truth is ; if something is true it is true for all people, in all places, at all times.
3. Truth is even though our beliefs about truth change.
4. cannot change a fact, no matter how sincerely they are held.
5. Truth is not affected by the of the one professing it.
6. All truths are truths. Even truths that appear to be are really .

Contrary

are possible, but contrary are not possible.

We can

everything is true, but we cannot everything true.

Law of non-contradiction:

ideas cannot both be true at the same time and in the same sense.

Self-defeating statements:
1. There is no truth — is that

?
2. All truth is relative — Is that a ?
3. There isn’t THE truth, only MY truth! — Is that just truth or truth?
4. It’s true for you but not for me! — Is that true for ?

1 Corinthians 15:14 NIV
14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

“In sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” —C.S. Lewis