1 John 4:8
God is LOVE
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Romans 1:20
The Invisible Qualities of the Universe
20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
John 14:6
The Truth
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 16:13
Spirit of Truth
13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
John 18:37
Testifying to The Truth
37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate.
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus the Same Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
LOVE and Truth coexist...They are basic beliefs of ours -but how did they get in our lives...And like LOVE, truth matters for the universe to exist...The Bible from the very start, never sets out to prove that God exists...But the Bible from Genesis chapter one is based on the premise that God does exist...It is much like the concepts of LOVE and Truth, there is somehow "A" premise telling us, teaching us, or somehow indwelt in us telling us that Universal Truths and Universal LOVE have always been around...LOVE and Truth have always been here....After all the universe does work...It seems when we think about it, Universal Truths (of our universe) and LOVE have existed forever...Well, how can that be?...
And if one believes that LOVE has been around forever, do they believe that the Universal Laws of the universe have been around forever...Or did they have a beginning, like when creation started?
Truth is not separated from God, and God is not separated from Truth...Neither is LOVE...But as we focus on Truth, we see that Truth is logical and organized...Truth is rational and not irrational...There are universal truths in this world...There are unchanging truths in this world...The question for us as we live and seek out Truth, is where did these rational, universal, unchanging truths come from...God is full of Grace and Truth, He is unchanging, and He is universal...This is one of the basic premises of our Bible...And without believing that God exists, it is very difficult to believe that there is goodness and truth and love in the world...And without this first and basic premise of "there is LOVE in the world and universal truths in the world", we wind up with the chicken and the egg mentality...
Let us believe that the historical Person of Jesus did come to earth and taught us about Truth...He actually said He is Truth...He also said He came to the world to testify to the Truth...And He had His Father send us, the Holy Spirit which is indwelt in us, that guides us to all Truths...Jesus claims to be the Absolute Truth, and believers and followers of His believe that we need an Absolute Truth in this world...We also believe that Absolute Truth is very important...His Truths will never pass, and they are the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow...
For believers believing that there has always been this Absolute Truth and LOVE strengthens our belief in God and His Son...After all, we have this finely tuned universe we know more about today than we did in Paul's day...Without His Absolute Truth there is no basis for LOVE...There must be Truth in LOVE for LOVE to exist, because trusting in truth is a major part of Absolute Truth and in God...Absolute Truth is universal...And when we seek God, we find this Universal Truth is necessary and unique...Truth is exclusive...Truth cannot be true one day and not be true the next...So science needs universal truths to understand the universe and to learn more about the universe with its Universal Truths...Without these universal truths, which God allows to happen over and over again, scientists and physicists have proven atoms, protons, neutrons, and nuclei...They are well on there way to prove quarks, leptons, and bosons -and they may now be already proven...And these things are invisible to us and right now have invisible qualities...These are universal laws that God has put into place that we have discovered or are discovering, as we discover more about the universe...Without an Absolute Truth in our universe, the world would collapse...Many of the universal truths that we call scientific proofs about the universe do exist and must exist for the universe to function and for man to exist on earth...Universal Truths are necessary for man to live and survive on earth...
As stated earlier, Truth is not irrational, but rational...And many come to God when they find the rational truth of the gospels and this Truth, that Jesus has taught and spoken...He said He was Truth, and He does not want us to ignore Truth...He wants us to seek Truth...Believers believe that Absolute Truth exists and that it is God...
Why believe in anything that is not true?...God's Word is Truth...And God is Truth...Believing in God is believing in the Truth...