What is Truth

Are you searching for,” the truth??” What is, the truth? People innately and instinctively search for truth. Most people never discover truth for many reasons, all the while craving and yearning for it.

The signature of G-d, is truth. G-d characterizes Himself, as truth. Does that help?

Here’s another hint. In Hebrew the word for truth is EMET, made of three letters, Aleph, Mem, and Tof. The first, middle, and last letter of the Hebrew alphabet.  Does that help?

A couple is celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary. A great big party is made and the husband presents his wife with a gorgeous diamond ring. One hour after the party the ring evaporates. 

Did he dupe her? The ring was real, during the party. It did disintegrate after all the guests and friends went home, but it was real when it was presented, or was it not?

Let’s say it didn’t evaporate after the party but instead of lasting a lifetime, “a diamond is forever”, it was discovered to be, not the material it was characterized to be.

According to Jewish law, “living waters” which have the power to purify, must come from a body of water that is always existent. If the waters should dry up even once in seven years the water is not living, even at the very  beginning of the seven year cycle. At the very beginning of seven years the time clock is already ticking to its demise, so death and termination is its inherent reality, rather than life. Living is only what this water appears to be when in truth death is its fate.

The Bible says, “We are made from earth and to earth we shall return.” That would mean that while we are alive our inherent path and direction is death. Rabbi Abarbanel says, “The minute a child is born he already begins to die.”

Does that mean we are investing our lives in transience and impermanence? Could this be why we search for truth. Somehow to attach ourselves to more than where our bodies can reach?

The Torah says, “This world is a world of falsehood.”  When you look at the world it proudly claims, “Here I am, I have always been here, I am real and I am forever.”  

However if you met me at “ my address”, a mansion overlooking the ocean with expensive cars parked in the driveway, only to find out I rented this location for ten minutes, you would be right to accuse me of being “untruthful” since I allowed you or I even fed you with a deceptive and misleading image of myself.

If you are unhappy with all the lies and untruths around you, you are searching truth to satisfy the yearnings of your true self, the soul that desires eternal qualities, you will find it only in G-dly practices as spelled out in G-ds Bible. The more a person invests his energies and attaches himself to G-dly practices, the more he will satisfy the constant feeling for meaning and purpose in life. Everything else is shallow and fleeting, hence not deep reaching and not the truth. 

ALL TRUTH BELONGS TO GOD

Truth is never our enemy, ever. Nothing that is true ever contradicts God’s revealed word in the Bible. All truth is our truth because we are of Christ and Christ is of the sovereign God.

TRUTH IS NEVER OUR ENEMY

This means that truth is never our enemy, ever. So we should never freak out about people who claim to have discovered truth. If it’s true truth, God owns it and has already accounted for it, and while nothing that is true ever contradicts God’s revealed word in the Bible, discovered truth sometimes contradicts the words of Christians. We shouldn't be afraid of this, because God knew it before anybody else and its discovery is dependent on his sovereignty anyway. The truth is that the truth is ours—all truth is our truth because we are of Christ and Christ is of the sovereign God.

Roll this around in your brain a while, because it is more explosive than its simplicity appears: God knows everything.

Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.