"Yes, a Person, a Unique Person, for Jesus Christ is the Son of God the Father: A Unique Person with a Unique Message, the Gospel of Jesus Christ." This Gospel Message, the Spirit of Truth declares in four propositions in 1 Corinthians 15:3-7: Jesus Christ died for our sins; Jesus Christ was buried; Jesus Christ rose again the third day; and Jesus Christ was seen by the apostles and many disciples.
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John 14:6. Jesus said unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but for me. Matthew 16:24. Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man will come after me, deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Acts 4:11. This Jesus is the stone reproached by you builders, who have come to be the head of the angle. 12. And in no other is there salvation; because there is no other name under heaven, given to men, in which we can be saved.
John 18:38: Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? John 8:31: If you continue in my word, then are ye my disciples, indeed. 32. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
A certain Pontius Pilate, fifth Roman governor of Judea, who presided over the trial of Jesus and ordered his execution raised the question 'What is Truth?' as he questioned Jesus, only to dismiss any answer.
Pilate's response was not in the nature of a further pursuit of the matter or even a recognition of the importance of what Jesus said. Rather, it was a cynical response based on what was, to Pilate, the seeming impossibility of ever knowing what truth was. 'What is truth?' he said, and then walked away." (Boice1)
God is the God of Truth. He alone determines what is true and what is false. God is not a liar; He is not a man that could lie, nor the son of man that He changes His mind. In Him, there is no variation neither shadow of turning. (Numbers 23.19; James 1.17) God sent Jesus, the Word (Logic) of God, with a true message to save sinners:
John 3:16. For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
The disciple, follower of Jesus Christ, must always remember that Jesus is the God/Man. For in Jesus dwells "all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." (Colossians 2:9) Grace and truth came by Christ. (John 1:17) Therefore, if God in Christ is the God of Truth, it follows that Truth exists. Any attempt to deny the existence of truth or true knowledge is false and self-defeating.
Truth and the existence of truth presuppose minds. There is an intimate relationship between truth and mind such that if there were no minds, then there would be no truth. In other words, truth is mental, that is, truth is for minds. When humans know truth, they know something that exists in the mind of God. Therefore, it follows that truth is immutable, eternal, and superior to human minds.
Jesus said, I am the truth. To know truth is to know something of the mind of God and God's eternal, immutable propositions about what can be known by human minds. Of course, the human mind is mutable, but it is impossible for truth to change. Thus, truth exists for minds and minds know immutable, eternal truths. Beliefs may vary from one person to the next, but truth does not. In short, to know truth is to know God's thoughts.
If truth and the human mind were equal, truth could not be eternal and immutable since the human mind is finite, mutable, and subject to error. Therefore, truth must transcend human reason; truth must be superior to any individual human mind as well as to the sum total of human minds. From this it follows, that there must be a mind higher than the human mind in which truth resides. (Nash2)
Moreover, truth is primarily propositional. God alone is the source of all true propositions; whatever He communicates He declares in true propositions, He being the God of all truth. It follows that truth is eternal and immutable since it exists in an eternal, immutable mind, the mind of God. To know Truth is to know something of the mind of God. If a proposition is true, it never changes. If it never changes, it never dies, and human minds can know it for the human mind is created in the image of God.
In sum, truth consists of the propositions that God thinks. These propositions are the thoughts of an eternal, immutable, sovereign mind. As such, God's mind thinks according to the laws of logic; God is not insane. He is not the author of confusion. (1 Corinthians 14:33) Logic is the structure of God's supreme, infallible thinking and reason. God Almighty is the origin and source of all propositional truth.
To repeat, if there is no mind, there can be no truth; and if there is no mind, there can be no such thing as logical reasoning. Truth can exist only in some mind for truth is mental. The Creator God, not Man the creature, determines all propositional truth concerning knowledge, meaning, value, history, destiny, creation, life and reality now and in eternity to the Glory of God. Thus, Truth is the self-disclosure of the mind of God, the Sovereign Creator and Ruler over all creation and creatures.
JESUS IS THE LIFE
Philippians 1:21. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
The life of a believer is the life of Christ in the believer. The disciple of Jesus enjoys eternal life even now. This is the record of true propositions of Scripture. All those who come to Jesus believing his message of salvation, the Gospel, and "believeth on him, may have everlasting life." (John 6:40)
John 10:28. And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish; neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. The true promise of Jesus is "I will raise him up at the last day."(John 6:44)
1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. 5:11. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.
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*A fact is a value with a variable error of Zero, according to Gordon H. Clark.
1 James M. Boice. What is Truth? Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, 1716 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
2 Ronald H. Nash. Faith and Reason, Academie Books, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI 49530, p.163.