{"id":6152,"date":"2014-12-21T00:05:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T08:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2014-12-20T18:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T02:58:40","slug":"truth-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2014\/12\/21\/truth-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, \u201cAre you the king of the Jews?\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIs that your own idea,\u201d Jesus asked, \u201cor did others talk to you about me?\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAm I a Jew?\u201d Pilate replied. \u201cIt was your people and your chief priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have done?\u201d<\/p>\n

\tJesus said, \u201cMy kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cYou are a king, then!\u201d said Pilate.<\/p>\n

\tJesus answered, \u201cYou are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWhat is truth?\u201d Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, \u201cI find no basis for a charge against him.\u201d (John 18:33\u201338)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\tSome people do not believe that there is such a thing as universal truth. Instead, they believe that what is true for one person, might not be true for another: it all depends upon one\u2019s point of view. People who think that way will point to the perception of beauty, taste in music, and optical illusions as evidence that they are right. They will suggest that truth is in fact entirely subjective and that we can never get past it. The internal contradiction, that they are asserting a universal truth that everything is subjective rarely occurs to them.<\/p>\n

\tPilate asked \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d not because he though Jesus would be able to tell him, but because he doubted that one could ever know it. From Pilate\u2019s experiences as a governor, he had found repeatedly that whenever he thought he knew the truth, too often he turned out to be wrong. His experiences had made him very suspicious of anyone talking about the truth. He doubted that there was anything that he could be certain of. But Jesus argued in favor of universal truth. He insisted that those who recognized the truth, who considered themselves to be on the side of truth, listened to Jesus.<\/p>\n

\tUnlike Pilate, we can believe that knowledge of the truth is not only desirable, not only possible, but certain. We can have confidence in the good news that Jesus taught. We can know that Jesus\u2019 words are the truth.<\/p>\n

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Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, \u201cAre you the king of the Jews?\u201d \u201cIs that your own idea,\u201d Jesus asked, \u201cor did others talk to you about me?\u201d \u201cAm I a Jew?\u201d Pilate replied. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}