John 14:6
I AM Truth
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Acts 17:24-31
God Has Been Appointed Jesus Our Judge
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
I believe that Jesus is Truth...I also believe that Jesus has been appointed our Judge...And because of this belief, this relates several things for me...Jesus helps me make sense of the world, so I believe He is the Absolute Truth...I believe then that He is the Way, the Truth of Life, and Life itself...He is our world's reality in this respect...
Because I believe that He is Absolute Truth, then I see Truth and Justice as being related...Because He is Just and is our Judge...And Truth must have the foundation of Love in it...And Truth must be undergirded with justice in it...And for Truth to be Truth, Truth must have a forgiveness component in it, or maybe it is best said, that we have to have Forgiveness to have Love...Can we have Love without Forgiveness?...And we must have Mercy to have Justice...Can we have Justice without Mercy?...So, for me, Truth, Love, Forgiveness, Justice and Mercy are intertwined, because of my belief in Jesus...