Truth is Not a Possession

"Everyone has their truth."

"Well, that's the truth that works for you."

"Well, you have your truth, and I have  my truth."

Such relativistic pragmatism is in vogue these days, yet these notions war against the very idea of "Truth", which speaks to a standard not based on where the adherent stands.

Truth is not a matter of how we believe, or what the person's influence may be on their beliefs.

Truth is not a possession, not a commodity which individuals can toy and dispense with as they please.

Truth must stand on its own, must last into eternity in order to have salience as truth.

There can be no talk of "your truth" or "my  truth", or the very concept of truth is warped beyond weal.

Truth, whether as concept, as abstraction, as certainty or as familiarity, implies a standard beyond one's own standing or understanding.

"The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity." -- George Santayana

No matter what changes, no matter what matters now or what matter may matter, whether spiritual or material, truth is not subject to change. A man's revelation of the truth may change, a man's understanding, or capacity to take in the truth may expand, but the Truth does not change, is not open for debate, yet remains open to discovery.

"Everyone has an opportunity to receive the truth, to give up one's attachment or preference.

Yet above all, the Truth is a person (John 14: 6), a Person whom we are called to grow in and know more of every day.

The Truth is not open for debate, yet rather open for discovery.

Man has decided, though, to dispense with the truth, resigning himself to the perceptions of men as the final arbiter of their communication on this earth. The pursuit is not such, yet rather a reception, which the mind of man, when unhinged from the truth of his origin, will reject if he is convinced that he can never know the truth though his intellect.

The mind of man receives the Truth, yet does not create the Truth. Revelation is not contrary to reason, but in fact substantiates it fully. There could never be reason without revelation. This Revelation is manifest to us in Jesus!

"Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free!" (John 8: 32)