Truth and Lies
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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When Christ says that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, the word used for “truth” is ἀλήθεια, which includes within its lexical scope ‘uncovering’ or ‘revelation’ (it is a negating word, like “innocence” in English). That which covers, distorts, or perverts the truth is contrary to God, for God is Truth. As Christians, it is our duty not only to believe and speak the truth about matters written in God’s Word, but also to believe and speak the truth about matters written in God’s Creation.
When Christ stood before Pilate, Pilate asked Him: Quid est veritas? What is truth? (Veritas is the Roman goddess of truth, Aletheia the Greek.) His inquiry may very well have been in earnest, for truth was certainly a core pursuit of Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman philosophy — something with which a statesman was expected to have some familiarity. Little did Pilate know (at the time) that it was Truth Himself Who stood before him.
The modern world would seek to reduce most things to matters of opinion, and, even in those cases where an admission is made that what is at stake is truth, the modern world will often pick the lie. The Christian is not permitted to concede such territory, for God is Truth and all Truth is One. To deny the reality (i.e., the truth) of Creation is, ultimately, to deny the Creator Himself, which is blasphemy or even apostasy.
It is meritorious and dutiful to defend the truth, but we must be willing to defend all truth, not simply those that are acceptable in the eyes of society or do not come at a personal cost. The truth, like the Law, is absolute — cursed is the man who does not keep it whole and undefiled.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.3 | And I'm still, whoa. |
| 0:43.3 | On today's Stone Quire, we're going to be talking about truth and lies. |
| 0:48.3 | There's a subject that we frequently visit. We've done a couple episodes entirely about portions of the truth. |
| 0:55.3 | We did an episode early on on the clarity of scripture, and we did another one on speaking |
| 1:00.4 | the truth plainly. Those are both within the first few months of Stone Choir. We're going to talk |
| 1:05.8 | about different aspects of it today. The purpose of this episode about truth and lies is to demonstrate to you, |
| 1:14.3 | dear listener, that the truth is a much broader category than you want to think it is, |
| 1:20.0 | and the category of lies is also much broader than you want to think it is. And in the middle |
| 1:25.7 | is the category of opinion, which is where everybody |
| 1:28.6 | wants to live. We all want to hang out in the opinion zone where I think my thing and you think |
| 1:33.3 | your thing and we're okay. You know, somebody might be wrong, somebody might be an error, but you can't |
| 1:38.6 | say that somebody's telling the truth and therefore the other man is lying if he disagrees because |
| 1:43.4 | it's a matter of disagreement and not a matter of truth and falsity. |
| 1:47.0 | I'd like for you to picture a gradient where at one end you have the truth, |
| 1:52.0 | and it's a bright white light. That's where truth is located. |
| 1:55.0 | That's how we talk about truth with a capital T. |
| 1:58.0 | We think of this metaphysical concept. It's this idealized, |
| 2:03.1 | perfected form of something. God is truth. It's one of the transcendentals, which I'm sure |
| 2:08.1 | Corey will get into here in a bit. But that's got to be fairly small because it's about God, |
| 2:13.7 | right? If God is truth, then only things that are God can be truth. And then we got all this |
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