Truth

The last couple of weeks I have been asking myself, "What is truth?"  And I don't mean the inane little nit picky truth, like "Does this dress make me look fat?" or "Do these wrinkles make me look old?"  I mean, I could tell the truth and say, "No, that dress doesn't make you LOOK fat, you ARE fat!" and then spend the rest of the next couple of weeks in traction trying to think up a good lie to cover the truth of the matter of what I said.  Heck, even most police departments in all 50 states understand that if you're a man and your wife asks you a question like that, and you DON'T lie and say no and get knocked out, the only thing you have coming from them is a chuckle and the word "dumbass" muttered as they walk past shaking their heads.  

So, that's not the truth I'm looking for.  I'm talking about the truth you see every day with your own two eyes and hear with your own two ears.  Truth that the drive by MSM refuses to tell you.  The truth that our leaders in Washington, DC craft lies to bury most cleverly.  So, I'm going to resort back to Mr. Webster's Online Dictionary) and see what he says truth is: 

Definition of TRUTH
1a archaic : fidelity, constancy
b : sincerity in action, character, and utterance
2a
(1) : the state of being the case : fact
(2) : the body of real things, events, and facts : actuality
(3) often capitalized : a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality
b : a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as true (truths of thermodynamics) c : the body of true statements and propositions
3a : the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality
b chiefly British : true 2c : fidelity to an original or to a standard
4capitalized Christian Science : god - in truth: in accordance with fact : actually
 
Examples of TRUTH 

At some point you have to face the simple truth that we failed. 
Their explanation was simpler but came closer to the truth. 
The article explains the truth about global warming. 
A reporter soon discovered the truth.Do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Her story contains a grain of truth but also lots of exaggeration.

I guess even Merriam Webster has been bitten in the butt by progressives by number 3 above.  I guess there's no truth in that little answer, so let's see what the Bible has to say about truth:

The Bible is the Word of Truth

Psalm 119:160 The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.

Daniel 10:21 But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince.

John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Ephesians 1:13-14 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

James 1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

God Leads in Truth

Job 34:12 Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.

Psalm 25:5 Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

Psalm 43:3 Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!

Psalm 86:11 Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

Jesus Teaches Truth; Jesus Is Truth

"Let us rejoice in truth, whenever we see its lamp burning."

Matthew 22:16  And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone’s opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances.  

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 

John 8:31-32  … So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 17:8 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. (Jesus speaking)

Walking in and Speaking Truth

Psalm 15:1-2 O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart;

Zechariah 8:16 These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;

Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

1 John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 3:18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Christian Quotes About Truth

“Today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our generation sees solutions in terms of synthesis and not absolutes. When this happens, truth, as people have always thought of truth, has died.”  ~ Francis Schaeffer

“I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.” ~ John Wycliffe

“Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

“Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.” ~ J. C. Ryle

“As a matter of honor, one man owes it to another to manifest the truth.” ~ Thomas Aquinas

This is a little bit better, but it requires that you have a belief in God and the Holy Trinity and are washed clean by the blood of Christ to be able to accept these truths as ultimate.  I wonder why God made it so nebulous, why there isn't a "one word-one phrase-cast-iron-definition-of-the-truth".   

Then it dawned on me:  This is what we get. 

We have spent the last 100 years telling God to bugger off.  We treat Him like He's a crazy old uncle with dementia that embarrasses us at family gatherings.  We tell Him things like, "The Old Testament is archaic and not relevant to today, that for someone to say the same throughout eternity is small-minded because they don't grow."  We drive him out of our public square by court and protests and legal actions, we out-and-out lie about the Constitution and say there is supposed to be a wall between church and state (by the way, if you read closely, and you have a mind sharper than Forrest Gump, you will see that it says "Congress shall establish NO religion", i.e. the government shall not form its own church, and that's because they were escaping England and the Anglican Church).  Every one of those founding fathers were Christians as well as the formers of the unique experiment of self-governance never before tried in the history of the world to that point.

So after all of this middle-fingering that we have given God, and all the idolatry that has taken His place, even after He sent His Son to die on the cross to save us all from our sins, we still choose to wallow in the destructiveness of our sinful nature and our lies that we carefully craft to manipulate the truth and make ourselves feel better, smarter, wiser, safer.  To look better in the eyes of our fellow man, or appeal to the masses so that power can be usurped by a few to enable demonic principles and damnable heresies to take hold and further subjugate all humanity to sin.

This is just my belief.  I base it on MY truth, the Holy Scriptures, both Old and New Testament.  It started with the fall of satan and 1/3 of the heavenly hosts.  Satan has been running loose in this world in what is called the "fourth dimension" or the "spiritual dimension" raising all kids of hell and creating all kinds of havoc.  Why is that?  Because he's arrogant, narcissistic, and up until that time, the greatest of all created beings that God the Father had created.  Then he tried to take God's place and he took a cosmic beat-down from God Himself.  Then God went on and created mankind, a creation far better than satan and all the heavenly angels because man was a creation meant to walk side-by-side with God to worship and to share eternity.  God's desire with man was to have a relationship that He couldn't have with the angels.  Satan brought original sin into the world and Eve was his first victim.  I blame Eve--but not really.  I think of Eve as Edith Bunker.  Not very worldly, not very bright, but well-intentioned.  Eve was all of those things, I think, including smoking red hot (sorry, Edith).  THAT's how I can manage to cut Adam a little slack for his stupidity in taking that first bite of fruit.  

This reminds me of an old joke.  Stop me if you've heard it.....
One day Adam and God were walking through the Garden of Eden and God noticed Adam was worried, almost troubled.  God said to him, "Adam, what troubles you my son?  Why the long face?"  Adam answered, "In all creation, there's two of everything, but only one of me."  God said, "You know, I've been thinking about that.  Doesn't seem right that you're all alone.  So I'll make you a deal, I'll give you your heart's desire of a partner, gorgeous long hair, shapely, committed and devoted only to your happiness and pleasure and she will never argue, never have a headache, and she will hang on your every word and desire."  Adam looked at God with a curious expression, then looked down, and after a while he looked back up at God and said those seven words that doomed us all:  "What have you got for a rib?" 

And the rest is all history.  

But I digress.  We are fed information and words all day long that have NOTHING to do with the TRUTH.  Truth is the subject of this essay, and I try to find truth in our daily lives, what we watch and hear and read, and you cannot find TRUTH.  What is the opposite of TRUTH?  LIES.
Take, for instance, the media.  It's incredible the lies they choose to perpetrate.  They show pictures of Trayvon Martin at 12 instead of the menacing gang banger photos from when he died, 6'2" and 170 lbs.  They try to make George Zimmerman out to be the bad guy because he tried to defend himself.  All 5'8" and about 150 lbs.  A man whose own self-defense instructor called him "soft".  But that doesn't matter.  We didn't buy the lies.  When that didn't work they tried to make him a racist, but he's 1/8 black and has a history of mentoring young black at risk children.  But that doesn't matter.  We didn't buy the lies.  They put an ignorant young woman on the stand who could not read cursive or speak discernible English, whose only concern that night was getting "drink and smoke" and the television pundits raved about how credible she was and what a great job she did on the stand.  Again, we didn't buy the lies.  What parallel universe are we living in that people utter lies and we see the truth? 

Obama and health care.  It's going to bankrupt this nation.  There is no fairness to it, it punishes people, and it's NOT about health care.  It's about controlling everything you do, eat, think, where you live, how much you weigh, medicines you take.  It fits into the Fabian Socialist (now known as Progressivism or liberalism) ideal of living with worth and value, getting rid of all the sick, lame, lazies, mentally retarded, racially inferior, and hopelessly inadequate people that they believe are a drain on society and make the world a worse place.  Obamacare is the Cadillac of lies, the creme de la creme of lies, and despite us knowing the truth, they keep rolling it out and ignore our protestations about the lies they are feeding us.  They don't like that we know the truth, so there will come a point where they won't be nice about it, they will do everything they can to force this lie on us.  Problem is, too many of us know the truth.  The TRUTH.

Now, here is where I wrap this up for you in an understandable package.  This is where you tie Fabian Socialism to untruths in government, in media, in pop culture.  Get the book and read it.  Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.  How to take power by the ends justifying the means.  One of his "ten commandments" besides attack and denigrate your subject repeatedly everywhere you can until people believe the lie is make the narrative about the lie.  Continue to tell the lie by building your facts around the lie.  It doesn't matter that the facts DON'T match.  The American public has become lazy, self-centered, they go to work, they come home, they collapse in the chair, they worry about looking like the hotties on the commercials talking about losing weight with the prepackaged food, or are you cool enough if you're not drinking the 64 calorie beer that brings all the chicks to your table, or how to live like the most interesting man in the world.  When was the last time you went to a Sandals resort and saw the babes that you see in the commercials?  I don't know anyone married to women like that and probably neither do you.  Even after years of complaining by the feminazis about irresponsible female role models they still lie to us and choose to portray women as "this is how you should look so you can lead an exciting happy life standing next to a hunk of a man."

Organizations like NOW, NARAL, GLAAD, PETA, Green Peace, all these one percenter groups that disrupt and distort truth to fit the progressive agenda are nothing more than useful idiots.  They are used by the Fabian Socialists/Progressives to push the lie.  To help remold the world and society to what THEY want.  They don't care if you're the perfect height and perfect weight.  If you're not you will go before one of the aforementioned panels, and if you don't fit the mold they will take away your ability to earn and your ability to live with a pill.  Take this pill and go sit in a corner and die.  Remember the Occupy rallies of two years ago?  All those people with their self-imposed righteous indignation at the wrongs as they saw it were nothing more than useful tools being used by the government and all its socialists.  I'm pretty sure that if you could get ahold of one of those mindless apparitions that protested and crapped on cop cars, once you FINALLY got through their ignorant fogs and helped them see the truth would slap their hands to their foreheads and exclaim, "Really?  I crapped on a cop car and it didn't mean anything to the government?"  
 
This has been coming to America since the turn of the 20th century and it's not just Democrats, it's Republicans, too.  Teddy Roosevelt being one of the most famous.  An icon of American Freedom for the Rough Riders and his iconic statements like, "Talk softly and carry a big stick," right up to Mr. John "Tammy Faye" Boehner, Lindsay Graham, John McCain--both sides of the aisle are guilty.  Sadly, not even the Tea Party is immune to this as Marco Rubio has been sucked into their vortex.

In closing, I guess I'm stuck with, and I will cling to, and accept the only form of truth I know in my personal life, and that is the Holy Bible.  The unerring Word of God.  

Even the Word BIBLE is an acronym.  It means Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth.  

God's owners manual for the human soul and daily living, and the only way to be able to see the forest through the trees or the righteous from the ass clowns is to immerse yourself fully in the scriptures.  It's a mirror to your face that will read YOU and not be you read IT.  It will shine truth in your face and convict you of every flaw, shortcoming, and lie you are living in your own life.  Lies are a disease.  Lies are a sin.  We all know that sin is death.  A good healthy dose of the Bible every day, from God's owners manual, is better than Ben Franklin's apple-a-day theory.  Don't believe the people who try to pound the alternative sources to truth.  Pick up your bible, any bible, and have truth give you a big wet kiss of reality.  

Start it with this:  John 1:1.  In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word WAS God.  

God is the word and God is truth.  The Word being the important fact, as you will find throughout the Bible.  The living Word is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  He and He alone will sit in judgment of those whose names are not written in the Book of Life.  He and He alone holds the keys to and has conquered death, hell, and the grave.  And on the subject of hell, God did not create hell for you and I.  He created it for Satan and for the angels that fell with him and turned their back on heavenly perfection.  He does not condemn us to hell.  He never would, He never will.  Sadly, WE CONDEMN OURSELVES TO HELL through unrepentant sin, denying God (you listening, athiests?), and refusing to accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God, come to earth in human form to save the world from its sin, past, present, and future through His blood atonement on Calvary's cross.  He paid the price for all of us.  Even if you were the only person on the planet, He still would have gone to the cross for YOU.  But for everyone who dies in their sin, your destination is hell.  I don't care if you don't believe in heaven and hell because they both exist and you're going to one or the other.  The choice is YOURS.  Always has been, always will be.  

And that is called free agency.  The greatest truth that the Lord has given us, the right to choose the truth, to accept Him, to live by His precepts, and his examples while on earth, THIS is the true meaning of TRUTH.  Anything else is a lie.  Anything else is vanity.  It's as simple as that, and it's as complicated as that, because the twin to truth, is faith, and without faith, you can never truly understand or walk in the truth.

Now, go get saved, because now you know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.