WHAT IS TRUTH?
How related to life? Dear Readers, Christians claim belief in truth as Jesus says: I offer an earthly meaning with: Truth is the reality of the order in which we exist. Also clear enough! Most give little thought to truth: truth is just the opposite of lies. Clear enough. No dispute between these! So why do so many, Christians especially, act as if in fear of truth? The above views are similar to viewing a tree from different viewpoints: The third looks at the roots in the earth, the foundation of life: a simple division of the living and non-living. Then we see the trunk that transmits nutrients from the roots to the foliage, and sun energy down to the roots. Above all the branches, leaves, flowers and seed of the life-form that give it meaning and future. Truth has concerned me since earliest memories! As base of my life's work you may glimpse understanding in "Of Truth" and concepts in "GNIEB><BEING". If we need be technical we see that "truth" is "order" in the universe as against chaos. The highest form of order we know is life. Detrimental to life is every form of deceit – disorder. The world is today in the grip of the anti-life force from which we draw our energies; this force dislikes the control that order forces on it and so it directs challenge to truth and order. We are created of energy "ordered" in truth to serve life! We develop intellect in spirit of truthful order! Without spirit and order of truth, no life exists. Christianity is now in captivity of religion! Religions can claim to be Christian but Christianity is not religion, it is faith in truth! Christianity, as the sword of truth, destroys the chaos of unorganised energy – this is the eternal battle. Life is in battle with chaos. Order requires intelligence. If we do not see that creation only occurs through the power of intelligence to arrange order of life in truth, then religion can bind itself to any plausible explanation! Outside of intelligence truth has no meaning. So each religion or philosophy must defend its interpretations from interpretations more orderly in relation to life/truth. Philosophies and religions instil fear in their followers to prevent migration to realities more rewarding. So today we find the plausible, (a tool of Globalist commercial usury) in opposition to industry (enterprise for free human advance). Chaos (the anti-life free of order) exercises power through philosophies; were this not inherent there would be only one religion. When we develop intellect we serve in respect for truth and understand that our creator and truth (as revealed) are as one in life and we find that truth stands firm on its own two feet (so to speak). On the other hand un-truth is fragile and those serving deceit fear the challenge of truth. So these deceive and tempt those devoted to truth to also fear challenge. Do we now have too little faith in truth to face challenge or too little faith in our given intellect to trust natural judgment? Or is it that we feel group loyalty is the dominant value of life and that any challenge is too frightening to face? Well, whatever the mixture; it is adolescent. The anti-life force has moved faith (in our minds) from its positive meaning to negative. Not so difficult because, as we can now see, love, faith and religion are all emotional structures having no loyalty to life unless bound to life's structure by devotion to truth. Truth is God because truth is the order of life as against disorder, which is death. So those lawyers of religion, who worm into our minds that we must not listen to the devil, do this to maintain their ability to mislead us and to thereby maintain the confused loyalty of their individual followers! They can be seen as anti-life because if proclaiming truth they would encourage investigation without worry of being overpowered by deceit. Those sincere in respect of truth give all information fair judgment! The door of truth is open! With light of truth understanding dominates. Those who claim there is no truth say all social concepts are equal; these fear truth because they sense that, in life, all false ideas combined must finally, in logic, bow to truth. See the point? Those who teach the false must try to instil blind resistance in all competition! The false cannot stand in fair competition with truth. So don't fearfully shun the tree, do as scripture says: judge the tree by the fruit it bears. The good tree produces good fruit. The fruit of deceit is to be easily seen in our world today! Those in power by wealth and greed feel that they can hold their children above the tsunami of lies and deceit they promote, but they don't understand the powers they manipulate; it is in the nature of life that anti-life forces decay in the garden of intelligence? Don't judge philosophy by fine mother-love words and plausible intellectualism. As we are told: (Sufi philosophy of India) quote: "If you would know the secret of the true, Don't trust words alone; seek understanding! Anyone can say words without sincerity or knowing of their meaning, even less may they know the spirit in the sentence. Intelligence bonds to logic not words! Without understanding we have knowledge without wisdom. To find wisdom; love and trust in truth! Truth may be revealed in strange places. Remember what Jesus said of the judgment day: Matthew: 7:21-23. How much clearer can the Christian revelation be made without destroying the challenge we need for our development? If we are afraid to know truth then how can we know its teacher? Love, generosity and honesty, these are not confined to the Israelites even though the Israelites, in their time, were chosen to carry the Word. Those who have the teaching should be honest and caring, but those honest and caring in love of truth without teaching do even better. Matthew: 3: 8-9: "do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father.' I tell you that God can make children for Abraham out of these stones here." TRUTH returns practical answers to intelligent pursuit of it! So if we do not accept that the creation of life is by intelligence in battle with chaos, then we do not see the signature of intelligence on its productions! How then can we distinguish what is of the Creator and what is of the anti-life challenge to the Creator? This should be simple choice; the force has been visible "ever since the world began, to the eye of reason, in the things He has made." Romans 1-20. The trade mark of intelligence is clear to intelligence: do we want to live life in the cyberspace of passing phantasies or do we want to live it in truth's eternal reality? The universe sings in the truth of its structure. So our future is in our hands! We were given life but are not forced to guard it. If not prepared to develop in truth, then we undermine justice and mercy. As scripture says: "Who is not for me is against me." We are the cause of our suffering. Those who persist in refusing truth destroy the order of life's comfortable habitat. These complain bitterly of increasing pain as they destroy the order that gives comfort of existence. It is truth of order that creates safe bridges, sweet music, nuclear force; it needs understanding to discern how to use knowledge for continued advance. We can be forgiven our sins but our life is in our hands; scripture's truth is logical despite all attempts of plausible explanation to show it otherwise. What is truth? Our themindweb site, from now on will be mainly archival. As with all order, if readers do not want to save it, the anti-life can destroy it! So download, print out; distribute. For further understanding, discussion, support and action related to life and the future of life continue at: www,gniebxbeing.org.uk Sincerely, Editor. |