Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Snippets of Veritas: Jesus is Truth


I am the way and the truth and the life. –Jesus recorded in John 14:6

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
-John 1:1-5

In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. -Hebrews 1:1-3

C.S. Lewis and "Trilemma":
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse…
You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

Rick Warren:
As a young man I studied all the major religions of the world. One thing I discovered was that all the major religions point to truth. The Hindu Scriptures, The Vedas, teaches that truth is evasive and hard to find. At the end of his life Buddha confessed, “I am still seeking the truth.” Muhammad said, “I point to the truth.” Compare all of these philosophies with Jesus who said, “I AM the truth.”

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