{"id":763,"date":"2012-09-09T07:51:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T13:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2012-09-09T07:51:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T13:51:31","slug":"truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"TRUTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRUTH ?<\/p>\n<p>What is it?<\/p>\n<p>Where is it?<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s got it?<\/p>\n<p>At the big university in Austin, Texas, there is a library with an infamous tower (used for a mass murder decades ago).\u00a0 At the base of this tower, engraved in concrete in very large letters, is a very bold statement about truth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That has been there for a very long time.\u00a0 I sometimes wonder in today&#8217;s culture, if some may reconsider it&#8217;s appropriateness.\u00a0 Many say you can&#8217;t &#8220;know the truth,&#8221; and that truth is kind of up for grabs.\u00a0 And the university isn&#8217;t exactly known for old-fashioned conservatism.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if that murderer who shot people from the top of that library tower ever read the partial quote outside.\u00a0 One thing is sure&#8212;he never knew the rest of the quote&#8212;and especially, he never knew the author.<\/p>\n<p>You see, I am closing with the complete quotation, and am pleased to tell you that I know the author.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;THEN JESUS SAID TO THOSE JEWS WHO BELIEVED IN HIM, &#8216;IF YOU CONTINUE IN MY WORDS, THEN YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES INDEED, AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.&#8217; &#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;&#8211;His Book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUTH ? What is it? Where is it? Who&#8217;s got it? At the big university in Austin, Texas, there is a library with an infamous tower (used for a mass murder decades ago).\u00a0 At the base of this tower, engraved in concrete in very large letters, is a very bold statement about truth. &nbsp; &#8220;AND [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}