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Pilate said unto Jesus: “What is TRUTH”? (John 18:38) in response to Jesus’ statement “... that I should bear witness to the Truth. Everyone that is of the Truth hears my voice” (John 18:37). As you recall from the John Gospel’s narration, Pilate did not wait for the answer and hurried to get rid of Jesus, because he knew nothing of the Truth and could not handle the Truth, and took the easy way out by “washing his hands of the blood of this Innocent”.
We hide behind our instincts and our intellect, we cling to the visible regardless if one can understand or explain its origin, and fumble pretending to know the Truth like the agnostic (literally means ignorant), who only accepts material phenomena, and somehow admits there is “a god” or “a force” but also believes that “The True God” and life hereafter, heaven and hell can neither be proved or disproved; No wonder the Lord questioned us:” If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?” (John 3:12).
The Truth and Wisdom of God are beyond human comprehension and conception and even acceptance, otherwise how can you explain Isaiah 11:6 : “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie with the kid, and the calf and the lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them”, but the Bible admonished us : “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. (Prov. 3:5-8)
For us to even tackle the subject of “What is Truth”, we must first find what Truth is not. Even through the process of elimination, we might understand but not comprehend, and if we succeed to comprehend, we might not conceive or perceive the depths and the extent of the Truth, lest the Spirit of Truth reveals It to us.
One can lull himself into toying with the bridle of all vices, armed with scientific arguments and cosmic phenomena in re-assigning attributes to the Absolute Truth, but in the real pursuit of Truth, one must first acquire Faith and Belief in the Spirit of Truth through Research and Inquiry to obtain Knowledge and Acumen through a sensitive spirit to discern its Depths, Credits and Merits. “Even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him: but you know Him for He dwells with you and shall be in you” (John 14:17)
Truth is One and Only but the antonyms and antithesis are numerous, and few should suffice: Fallacy, apostasy, complacency, half truth, delusion, illusion, bondage, customs & traditions.
Let us review some of the prominent prerequisites in searching for the Truth, which the Essence of Knowledge and Meekness of Spirit are Its Subject, and at the basis of Its Existence is the undisputed Word of God, the Facts & the Reality, coupled with Nature and Matter for Its Principal, recognized for Its Force through Uniformity and Consistency, prototyped after Conformity and Object Lesson, adapted through Orthodoxy and Compliance, and finally embraced by Faith without wavering.
