What the Bible Says About Truth – New Testament Gospels By: Myra Kahn Adams for Town Hall
Thanks for joining our study about truth in the New Testament Gospels. If you missed last week’s Part One/Old Testament discussion, please read it now since it is the foundation of what appears below. While the rest of us patiently and lovingly wait, listen to “Love You With the Truth” by Casting Crowns. (To wake you up, my first musical inclination was to link “Communication Breakdown,” but I resisted the urge.)
Last week, I wrote that truth is “always a relevant and essential theological topic.” And continued with what I believe is the curse of our times:
“The unfortunate truth is that these days, ‘truth’ is relative and can be whatever someone thinks or wants it to be to justify whatever needs justification. After all, prevalent in modern thought is ‘Who are YOU to judge?’ Long gone are moral guideposts and societal shame facilitated by the decline of biblical literacy, the weakening of Judeo-Christian tradition, and cultural change.”
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Such is what believers in Christ are up against, orchestrated by the evil one. Ultimately, truth will prevail and be revealed through our continually growing and loving relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. That truth, by which we must live, means abiding by the Word of God, as reflected in His teachings.
The gospel passage below best encapsulates the truth operationalized in a minute-by-minute guide stating “how to” live our lives. This passage does not mention “truth” per se, but what Jesus says is the essence of truth:
“Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’ Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments’” (Matthew 22:34-40).
