WHAT IS TRUTH?

My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ Our Lord, God, and Savior,

CHRIST IS IN OUR MIDST! HE WAS, IS, AND EVER SHALL BE.

WHAT IS TRUTH?

Jesus reveals to us, "When He, the Spirit OF TRUTH, has come, He
will guide you INTO ALL THE TRUTH, for He will not speak of His own
authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you
things to come" (John 16:13).

"Pilate, therefore, said to Him, ‘Are You a king then?’ Jesus answered,
‘You say rightly that I am a king, for this cause, I was born, and for this
cause, I have come into the world, that I SHOULD BEAR WITNESS TO
THE TRUTH. Everyone WHO IS OF THE TRUTH HEARS MY VOICE.’
Pilate said to him, ‘WHAT IS TRUTH?" (John 18:37038).

"For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His TRUTH ENDURES FOR
ALL GENERATIONS" (Psalm 100:5).

"For the law was given through
Moses, but GRACE AND TRUTH CAME
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST" (John 1:17).

"Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, ‘If you
abide in My words, you are My disciples indeed. And you
SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE
YOU FREE. (John 8:31-32).

"Jesus said to them, ‘I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND
THE LIFE" (John 14:6).
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Just as Christ is the Church so is TRUTH Christ the Person. Pilate asked Him the question "What is Truth?" did not realize that the answer to his question was right in front of him, that is Jesus Christ. He is the Truth, the ultimate, absolute, eternal, and Divine Truth. Our Lord and Savior is THE TRUTH because He is the unique REVELATION OF THE Father, Who is the goal of our journey through life. "The WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE" IS INDEED A Person, our Lord Jesus Christ. He is so because of HIS PERFECT UNION WITH His Father (vv, 9, 11). The WAY we reach the Father is forever established through the Son. Jesus Christ is the LIFE, the UNCREATED ETERNAL LIFE manifest in the flesh so that e might have life. While aspects of goodness and truth are found among all people by virtue of their being created IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD, SALVATION COMES THROUGH CHRIST ALONE.

There are NOT many truths. There is ONLY ONE Truth, Jesus Christ. What humanity is looking for, if it is looking for the truth, is right in front of it. The Jews rejected the Messiah Jesus Christ and by doing so they rejected the Truth. We see the same thing taking place in our contemporary world which not only has rejected Christ, the Truth but has deliberately attempted again and again to distort the Truth and deceive humanity. Even Christians are confused among themselves regarding the Truth and who is in possession of it. Because they have abandoned the authentic Church of Christ they have fallen into spiritual corruption distortions, and false interpretations of the Holy Scripture. How else can one explain the formation of 45,000 different denominations or fragments of Christianity in the world? How else can one explain the countless errors and heresies that have resulted due to the lack of guidance? There is only One God, One Church, One Creed, One Baptism, and One Truth in our Christian Faith. There is no unity among Christians because they have lost sight of Jesus Christ Who is the Truth. They lack guidance because they have stopped believing in God the Holy Spirit, Our True Guide, and Comforter. Christianity was founded by Jesus Christ on His REVELATION OF THE DIVINE AND ETERNAL TRUTH.

"The tendency in contemporary cultural society to place ALL confessions on one level is not limited to Christianity; on this same all-equalling level are placed also the non-Christian religions, on the grounds that they all "lead to God," and besides, taken all together, they far surpass the Christian world in the number of members who belong to them.

All of such "uniting" and "equalizing" views indicate a forgetfulness of the principle that there can be many teachings and opinions, but there is only ONE TRUTH. And authentic Christian unity–UNITY IN THE CHURCH–can be based only upon ONENESS OF MIND, and NOT upon differences of mind. The Church is THE PILLAR AND GROUND OF THE TRUTH" (1 Timothy 3:15). While the HolyScriptures are the INSPIRED TRUTH of God in human words (2 Timothy 3:15-17), the Church is THE PILLAR AND GROUND of that Truth. Saint Paul, however, exhorts the Christians saying, "Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times SOME WILL DEPART FROM THE FAITH, GIVING HEED TO DECEIVING SPIRITS AND DOCTRINES OF DEMONS, SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY, HAVING THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE SEARED WITH A HOT IRON" (1 Timothy 4:1-2). We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ created the Church to bring the whole world to Him and for all of mankind to find salvation in Him."

The word ‘Orthodoxy’ is made up of two words, which together mean ‘RIGHT GLORIFICATION’ or ‘RIGHT DOCTRINE.’ ‘Doxa’ has the two meanings of ‘BELIEF’s, the opinion which we have about a subject, and ‘GLORIFICATION.’ Therefore, Orthodoxy means the True, correct faith and the True Glorification of God.

"This combination suggests to us the Truth that a True faith leads to the True Glorification of the Trinitarian God. If the faith about is erroneous, then the glorification of God will be erroneous…The True faith cures man and so guides him to the real worship of God and the True Communion with Him. Therefore, the Trueneess of the faith is seen from the Trueness of the cure of the person. If a faith does not cure man, it is not true…The True faith is God’s Revelation to man and NOT man’s discovery. And indeed God REVEALED THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT HIMSELF AND THE SALVATION OF MAN NOT TO MEN AT RANDOM, BUT TO THE SAINTS, WHO WERE WORTHY OF REEIVING THIS REVELATION, BECAUSE IN REALITY THE REVELATION IS NOT INDEPENDENT OF THE DEIFICATION (THEOSIS) OF MAN AND THE VISION OF GOD." (Source: Orthodox Dogmatic Theology and the Mind of the Orthodox Church)

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"Glory Be To GOD
For
All Things!"
– Saint John Chrysostomos
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With sincere agape in Christ’s Divine Revelation to mankind,
The sinner and unworthy servant of God

+ Father George