Posted by LOL on September 30, 2013 at 23:56:10
In Reply to: Re: A Truth For Today posted by Pastor Don on September 30, 2013 at 13:39:23:
>>>It is the truth that will set you free - not merely what you believe to be true. Truth is God's perspective, not mixed with worldly wisdom. (Tony Evans)
If you say that out loud, I wonder if you can even hear how oxymoronic that sounds. By definition, unless we _are_ God, we can but follow what we _believe_ to be the "truth." As a recipient of a message, any message, we are but limited to using our own interpretation of what that message means. Our interpretations are based on empirical data, in other words, our experiences, which can only be classified as "worldly wisdom."
If we are gifted with eyesight, we may, as individuals, know what a blue sky looks like. But nobody can ever decide for another person what the color "blue" is exactly. Can you even describe the _truth_ of "blue" or "orange" to a person who was born blind so that they experience it exactly as you do? Every person, blind or seeing, will have to arrive at their own internal understanding of what "blue" and "orange" means to them. No outside source can define for them what "blue" or "orange" is.