What Is Truth?

The art of communication is being understood, and words are a form of communication. However, between the speaker and the listener there needs to be a common understanding of the meaning of the words used. Otherwise, the result isn’t communication but confusion. In linguistics, when two words from different languages sound the same but have a different meaning, these words are called false friends because they lead to confusion in translation. The religion of Christian tradition taught in modern churches is full of false friends but because the theologically trained teachers of religion don’t understand the ancient Hebrew culture of the Bible, no-one is any the wiser. Take for instance the word truth. The BGs of religion teach that their particular brand of theological tradition is the truth and woe betide anyone who dares to suggest otherwise.

God Speaks Absolute Truth

In Hebrew, the word commonly translated “truth” comes from the word “amen” or faith, meaning to build or establish something like a pillar or bridge that actively supports the weight that it holds. Within the ancient Hebrew culture of the Bible, words were things both said and done by the breath of one’s life. Words are a form of communication and an action. When God wants to do something, He says it. He speaks His word by the almighty breath or Holy Spirit that dwells within Him and that proceeds from Him as he Fathers the words that He speaks. If nothing happens, it is not God who is speaking. When God speaks, the presence of his words of living breath, filled with the breath or Holy Spirit of God’s eternal life, is called light or “day”. The absence of the living words of God is called darkness, or “night”. God spoke the word “Son” and breathed himself completely and totally into the body of Jesus, the incarnation of God, fully man and fully God. That is why Jesus is called the light of the world.

The Devil Speaks Lies

The devil, or father of lies, offers a lying alternative to the absolute truth of the living word of God. The devil has established a kingdom in darkness based upon the natural light of the sun, moon and stars but with an absolute absence of the light of the living and loving words of God. Regarding the devil, Jesus said in John 8:44 (KJV) “…He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” The devil speaks lying words by his evil breaths or spirits. In Hebrew, the word translated “soul” means literally a personality or “breathing being”. The devil’s words of lying breath and false promises attempt to establish a kingdom within the hearts and the breathings of the personalities (or souls) of those who believe them. These living lies or lying breaths or evil spirits become incorporated into the foundation or woven into the fabric of people’s hearts or personalities as truth if they are believed and established as if they were true. They are ultimately not true, but they are very real, so real in fact that they can create such a living hell within people’s hearts that the recipient can be driven to commit suicide and even murder.

Relative Truth

In John 18:38 (KJV) Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?” The father of lies would answer “the truth is whatever you accept, agree with, or believe is true”. That is, of course, a lie. The devil’s so-called truth, or deep secrets, do not set people free. When Adam and Eve were deceived into sinning in the garden of Eden by believing the serpent’s lie of the freedom to become “as gods” by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they grasped equality with God and rejected the ultimate and absolute truth of the living words that God had spoken. Instead they partnered with the father of lies to decide for themselves what was good or evil, true or false, right or wrong. They said in their hearts “I will decide what is right for me, I will decide how I will live, I am the ultimate authority in my life, no one is greater than me”. Ever since the darkness of the Fall, in the pride of their fallen hearts, people have decided for themselves what they consider as “truth”. Their own relative or personal truth comes from the culture that they are born into, their upbringing, whatever religious traditions or beliefs they may hold and their own personal past. Hebraically, truth is of the heart, not the head because as a man thinks within his heart, so he is. It has nothing to do with any form of philosophical or conceptual religious or traditional beliefs. People live what they really believe, people display or reflect their inner understanding of what they think is true in the way that they behave and experience life.

Living In The Truth

Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He did not come to establish the so-called truth of the Christian religion or Creed of Church tradition but rather the truth of relationship, a Father-Son relationship with God that all peoples everywhere can share. If you would like to understand how to escape the false-friend shackles of the Christian religion of tradition, truly understand the Biblical meaning of the word truth, and enjoy a Father-Son relationship with Almighty God that lasts forever, then click here. Millions have been betrayed by the religion in which they trusted but you won’t be one of them. You won’t be disappointed like they are.