How Does the Truth Make You Free?

Suggested by: RLC

Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?", and did not receive an answer. Can you answer Pilate's question? I have never heard an answer given that is useful in understanding GOD, our Reality, and the Bible. The way truth is understood, and used by most, is according to the dictionary's definition of "the body of real things, events, and facts"; but is this the full meaning of GOD's Truth--one of HIS Seven Main Aspects? Jesus stated that he is the way, and the truth, and the life (John 14:6). Therefore, there is a spiritual quality of Truth that helps explain what we see manifested in the physical world around us as well as some of GOD's actions in the Bible. What is this spiritual quality?

All things, whether living or inanimate, are defined by two aspects--Principle and Truth. The Principle aspect defines the unchanging qualities of the thing while the Truth defines the "way" the thing responds to its changing environment or to changing situations--i.e. water's molecular composition never changes for it to remain water, but its state changes according to temperature. This concept is very important to understanding our reality and interpreting the Bible.

GOD's Principle and Truth are unchanging, but GOD's response changes in living situations according to all the factors currently in the situation. HE always deals with a situation according to its state at the moment of HIS response--not what it was two minutes before. Therefore, it appears that GOD changed HIS mind in a few Scriptures--i.e. Exodus 32:6-14 and Numbers 16:41-49 where it appears that Moses reasoned with GOD to change HIS mind in one case and used symbolic actions to change HIS mind in another. A part of Bible interpretation is to not believe the obvious if it may lower GOD's Glory in your mind. It would lower GOD's Glory in my mind to believe that any Man could reason with GOD to change HIS mind as though GOD was not already aware of all the possible consequences to HIS actions. The only other possibility is that there was a change in Moses when he realized that GOD would destroy the nation of Israel totally. His Love for GOD and his people produced a deepened commitment to the task at hand, and that deepened commitment produced a different response from GOD because of the changed situation. Moses's apparent reasoning with GOD was only the thoughts he had to go through to produce the deepened commitment within himself. To believe any Man changed GOD's mind is slanderous in my opinion.

The second example (Numbers 16:41-49) illustrates Man's actions as supposedly changing GOD's mind. Again the change actually occurred in Man, and the change resulted in GOD again responding to the changed situation differently. It is the same way when we pray. Our prayers will never change GOD's mind. All our prayer's can ever do is produce the change in ourselves that results in GOD responding according to our changed state. To believe GOD does not do miracles today because we have the completed message in the Bible (as leaders in a church I attended stated more than once) is slanderous of GOD. If the faith is there, what is asked will occur--period (Matthew 17:20). When our prayers do not appear to be answered immediately, it is because we did not have the faith necessary for GOD to respond accordingly. The level of faith we have is totally dependant on the level of GOD's Love in our heart, which expresses HIS Truth--resulting in faith (wordpict.pdf). Was there ever a delay in answering Jesus's requests? What was true for him is also true for us because if we do the Will of GOD we are Jesus's sisters and brothers (Matthew 12:50). Jesus was not sent to reveal what we could not do, but who and what we are to be.

Therefore, the Truth that makes us free is the expression of GOD's Love in our heart. We are not attempting to make situations meet our self-serving desires and continually struggling against the natural order of all things. We are in agreement with GOD, therefore, what we strive to accomplish is according to HIS Will, and HIS Will will be done. If what we want is according to GOD's Will, we will receive what we desire, and we will always be at peace with our environment. This is freedom indeed!

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