The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by
understanding hath he established the heavens. Proverbs 3:19
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John
8:32
Jesus
answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6
The celebrated prayer
of the great German astronomer, Kepler, has been a benediction to many: “O God,
I thank Thee that Thou has permitted me to think Thy thoughts after Thee!”
This prayer is
theologically sound because it acknowledges the priority of God in the
universe. Whatever new thing anyone discovers is already old, for it is but the
present expression of a previous thought of God. The idea of the thing precedes
the thing itself; and when things raise thoughts in the thinker’s mind these
are the ancient thoughts of God, however imperfectly understood.
Should an atheist, for
instance, state that two times two equals four, he would be stating a truth and
thinking God’s thoughts after Him, even though he might deny that God exists.
In their search for facts,
men have confused truths with truth. The words of Christ, “Ye shall know the
truth and the truth shall make you free,” have been wrenched from their context
and used to stir people to the expectation of being made “free” by knowledge.
Certainly this is not what Christ had in mind when He uttered the words.
It is the Son who is
the Truth that makes men free. Not facts, not scientific knowledge, but eternal
Truth delivers men, and that eternal Truth became flesh to dwell among us!
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