{"id":1115,"date":"2012-11-09T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T04:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2012-11-09T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T04:01:51","slug":"when-truth-is-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"WHEN TRUTH IS TRUTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truth does not become Truth . . . when it becomes relevant.<\/p>\n<p>Truth does not become Truth . . . when circumstances make people listen to it.<\/p>\n<p>Truth does not become Truth . . . when the majority believe it.<\/p>\n<p>Truth does not become Truth . . . when people open their Bibles.<\/p>\n<p>Truth does not become Truth . . . when all goes well.<\/p>\n<p>Truth does not become Truth . . . when hard times come.<\/p>\n<p>Truth does not become Truth . . . when Congress sings &#8220;God Bless America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Truth does not become Truth . . . when you beat the system.<\/p>\n<p>Truth does not become Truth . . . when it gets enough votes.<\/p>\n<p>Truth does not become Truth . . . when I believe it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Truth is Truth when . . .<\/p>\n<p>That is not the way to talk about Truth, because it implies that there are times when Truth is not Truth.<\/p>\n<p>TRUTH IS TRUTH . ! &#8212;at all times, in all places, in all cultures, in every debate, in every dilemma, in every living being.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t define it, because we didn&#8217;t invent it.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t define it, but we can find it.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t define it, but we can draw a line with it.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t define it, but we can live by it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is TRUTH?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;&#8211;Pilate, to Jesus<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am the TRUTH.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;&#8211;Jesus<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your Word is TRUTH.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;&#8211;His Book<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We cannot alter or affect the TRUTH&#8212;but we can accept it.<\/p>\n<p>The glorious TRUTH is this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then Jesus said to those Jews which believed on Him, &#8216;If you continue in My Words, then you are my disciples indeed, and you will know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH will set you free.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a deal&#8212;it is TRUE&#8212;and it is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth does not become Truth . . . when it becomes relevant. Truth does not become Truth . . . when circumstances make people listen to it. Truth does not become Truth . . . when the majority believe it. Truth does not become Truth . . . when people open their Bibles. Truth does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}