WHAT IS TRUTH?: A DANGEROUS NOTION

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. What Is Truth?

a) Pilate asked the question, “What is truth?” It's an easy question to ask, especially in the spirit in which Pilate asked it. But what is the answer?

John 18:37-38
37 Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” 38 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and *said to them, “I find no guilt in Him.

2. A Dangerous Notion

a) The notion that there is no universal truth is very dangerous. If all truth changes from person to person and from situation to situation, there is no firm ground, no reference point. There's a valid contradiction for everything.

b) Pilate found no fault in Jesus, but the mob said “Crucify him!” and Pilate found it expedient to hear that as a valid contradiction to what he believed to be true. 

The End ...