KNOWLEDGE, FAITH, AND TRUTH
- CHIP
- Jun 11, 2017
- 2 min read
When the last bite of the apple is taken, will the Son of man find faith on the earth upon His return. It is often said that knowledge is power, but faith is a much greater force, because it gives you what knowledge can never fully accomplish... access to the power of Truth. Truth is absolute non-compromising and exclusive of any falsehood. It is and needs no external validation. It is all that has been set in motion and created as spoken by the Word of God, and it is the Word itself. It is both cause and effect in harmony with each other, and anything outside of it has its origin in the corruption of its essence. It is the Creator's perspective of reality in the many forms He chooses to send it forth and allow His creation to experience and observe.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing and the honor of Kings to search out a matter. The seeking out of knowledge is only honorable when its end goal is finding truth in the humble understanding that it does not originate in self. The human mind in its unquenching thirst for knowledge outside of faith through scientific research, can at best only arrive at informed perspectives gathered and formed through the subjective limited experiences of a finite being. At its worst, this human endeavor is driven by the thirst for power and the perpetuation of hidden agendas to own and control. At its best, it is the honest search for truth without the transcendent component of faith. The reason why both fall short, is that Truth itself transcends human experience outside of the intersection into time and space by a certain Galilean carpenter. The problem for the purely scientific seeker, is that unlike the popular axiom, in order to see you must first believe, and this requires faith. In human history, the only place where Truth embraced by Love offers hope, is in the person of Jesus. The honest search for knowledge will ultimately lead to Truth when it embraces faith, and when it does, it will meet its Maker.
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