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The Source Of Truth
Truth.
Without it the world devolves into an amorphous chaos where everyone's preferences describe a personal reality disconnected from everyone else's. In that dark place no decision is good or bad, no action is right or wrong. But in the presence of truth - we are exposed for what we are. Therefore we need truth as the divine measuring rod of our identities. "
I am the truth" - Jesus The Christ.
I Unapologetically Believe That The Bible is Truth. Without a definite source of truth, we end up in a quagmire of irresponsible erudition leading to nowhere. Introduce a defined truth into a discussion however and everything relating to that revealed truth is either in line with it (True) or out of sync (False). "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth." (John 17:17 NASB95)

Truth Is, This Is Only A (fun little) Test

Submitted by akarobby on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 5:09am
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When my son came home from college this last Christmas break we spent some time quizzing each other about different Bible-related topics primarily using the tools and resources in my Logos Bible software library. I thought it appropriate that I share here the questions we came up with on the subject of “truth.” (The choice of the topic was actually inspired by this site.) Whether you take this "test" just for the fun of it or maybe for a little added edification, I hope you find these questions and the answers (listed at the end) both interesting and enjoyable.

1) How many times does the word “truth” (singular) appear in the Bible (NIV)?
__ a) 224
__ b) 298
__ c) 403
__ d) 637

2) Testament-wise, the appearance of the word “truth” is divided:
__ a) About 65% in the Old Testament and 35% in the New Testament
__ b) About equally between the Old and New Testament
__ c) About 35% in the Old Testament and 65% in the New Testament
__ d) Less than 20% in the Old Testament and over 80% in the New Testament

3) Of these four books of the Bible, which has the most occurrences of the word “truth?”
__ a) Psalms
__ b) Proverbs
__ c) Romans
__ d) Revelation

Truthiness

Submitted by blastum on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 7:09pm
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I recently discovered the Merriam-Webster word of the year, truthiness, which has as definition #2, "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts kn

Islam cannot tolerate truth

Submitted by skep-tik on Mon, 11/13/2006 - 3:04pm
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Truth is not a part of the religion of Islam. Hatred and violence are integral. Oh, sure there are lots of moderate muslims willing to declare otherwise.

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