As Christians and specifically evangelical Christians we say that we are truth, there is no other. People who don't believe that Jesus is "the way, the truth and the life" are pitied and sometimes degraded as being obstinate or someone who is ignoring the obvious. As I've traveled more I do lean more towards truth is relative to the individual. When I listen to a muslim talk about their faith and traditions who am I to call out their faith as false. When someone who is seeped in a faith and may never have known or spoke to a christian we are pretty egotistical in just saying a individual verse and feel that person should automatically see our point of view and accept our faith.
In conflict management and political movement I've read that there can't be progress until a common ground is established. Whenever there is a discussion of truth there has to be some assumptions and to often our assumption as Christians is we are right and you are wrong.
I was searching for the C.S. Lewis quote on faith that basically says Christ is either who he said he was or he was a madman, but came across another quote that I think gets to the notion of truth for the person. C.S. Lewis said, "I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of evidence is against it". Until we get to a point with an individual that we can talk about our common grounds and what are our differences we can never have a discussion of what is truth. As Lewis said we may disagree, but we disagree with a much deeper understanding.
The first principle of Christian education is this, Alan: “All truth is God’s truth.” That is a simple acknowledgement that truth can be found in many places, and everywhere it is found, it is a “revelation” of God. That doesn’t make it “relative.” It just acknowledges the source.
As Christians and specifically evangelical Christians we say that we are truth, there is no other. People who don't believe that Jesus is "the way, the truth and the life" are pitied and sometimes degraded as being obstinate or someone who is ignoring the obvious. As I've traveled more I do lean more towards truth is relative to the individual. When I listen to a muslim talk about their faith and traditions who am I to call out their faith as false. When someone who is seeped in a faith and may never have known or spoke to a christian we are pretty egotistical in just saying a individual verse and feel that person should automatically see our point of view and accept our faith.
In conflict management and political movement I've read that there can't be progress until a common ground is established. Whenever there is a discussion of truth there has to be some assumptions and to often our assumption as Christians is we are right and you are wrong.
I was searching for the C.S. Lewis quote on faith that basically says Christ is either who he said he was or he was a madman, but came across another quote that I think gets to the notion of truth for the person. C.S. Lewis said, "I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of evidence is against it". Until we get to a point with an individual that we can talk about our common grounds and what are our differences we can never have a discussion of what is truth. As Lewis said we may disagree, but we disagree with a much deeper understanding.
Thank you for your articles.
Alan
The first principle of Christian education is this, Alan: “All truth is God’s truth.” That is a simple acknowledgement that truth can be found in many places, and everywhere it is found, it is a “revelation” of God. That doesn’t make it “relative.” It just acknowledges the source.