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“Come, Let Us Reason Together”
The Nature of Faith Faith is a terrifying thing—it is the certainty of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. And that certainty can make you powerful, even dangerous. You know you’re r…
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Truth invites discussion. It grows stronger through challenges. It has no relationship with darkness; it is light, craving openness.
John 3:20-21 (AV)
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light,
neither cometh to the light,
lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light,
that his deeds may be made manifest,
that they are wrought in God.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 (KJV)
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
The most dangerous people on earth are those who can no longer confront differences on the battlefield of truth and must fight them elsewhere. They have lost faith in their truth-claim, but not in their claim. This becomes a contest of wills—faith into will, will into power, power into subjugation.
The ancients wrestled with this long before us.
Plato believed that universal truths—right and wrong, good and evil—exist outside of human minds. They are not invented; they are revealed. They are not chosen; they are discovered. He likened them to shadows on the wall of a cave, cast by a reality beyond our vision. That reality, though unnamed by him, was God.
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