by Rick Badman

Created on: February 03, 2009

John 8:32 says: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Jesus said this to Jews that believed on him. This also applies to believers today.

He said this in the midst of Pharisees that thought he was a sinner who was born due to fornication. They didn't want to listen to him and believe he was who he said he was. He stated the fact that his father was God and they thought he was a liar. They bragged that their father was Abraham. But Jesus told them that their father was the devil.

What really set them off was when he said before Abraham, I am. They picked up stones to stone him. But he shifted out of this dimension and passed through their midst and escaped. When he said I am, this meant that he was God since they all knew that this is how the Jews knew Moses was sent from God because he told Moses to tell them that I am that I am. Jesus said this because it was a fact and the truth.

I like what Harrison Ford said in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." Archeology is the search for facts. If you're searching for the truth, there are philosophy classes. This isn't exactly what he said. But the idea is correct. There are facts which are sometimes etched in stone, so to speak. 2 + 2 will always equal 4.

Other facts change. A century ago it was a "fact" that the atom could not be split. Less than 40 years later, that fact was disproven. As technology advances, facts are disproven all the time and replaced by other facts which may also be disproven. It used to be a fact that no one could fly beyond the speed of sound and survive. Now scientists say the speed of light is an uncrossable barrier. They may in the future be disproven.

Truth is something that was valid 1000 years ago and will remain valid 1000 years from now. One thing that has always been true is that God loves mankind. He sent his son to die on the cross to give us eternal life. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice for sin. By believing on him and trusting in him, people become children of God. They don't have to wonder if this is true. John wrote in I John 5:13: These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. This is both an unchangeable fact and the truth.

Pilate asked Jesus in John 18:38: What is truth? Jesus had told him in the verse before that he had come into the world to bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth hears his voice. God

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