Truth in a crisis

Sunday April 5 2020 Notes

Question from Elisabeth L on April 4 2020

Is fundamental truth I believe is what God’s word says

Practical truth- material – worldly stuff

And abstract truth what we imagine it to be?

Spurgeon threw me for a loop today on his take on Jeremiah 5  and I started asking what abstract, practical, and doctrinal truth is. I understand Jeremiah 5 and what was going on in that scripture. More like just looking at a simpler way to define abstract, practical and doctrinal truths.

Truth, what is it

Definition of truth (Entry 1 of 2)  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truth 

1a(1): the body of real things, events, and facts : ACTUALITY

(2): the state of being the case : FACT

(3)often capitalized : a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality

b: a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as true

truths of thermodynamics

c: the body of true statements and propositions

2a: the property (as of a statement) of being in accord with fact or reality

c chiefly British : TRUE sense 2

c: fidelity to an original or to a standard

3a: sincerity in action, character, and utterance

barchaic : FIDELITY, CONSTANCY

https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-about-truth/

https://biblehub.com/jeremiah/5-3.htm

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth?

You struck them, but they felt no pain.

You finished them off,

but they refused to accept discipline.

They have made their faces harder than stone

and refused to repent.

1 John 1:8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

1 John 3:18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

1 Kings 17: 24 Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is the truth.”

Eph 6:14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,

John 1:14 14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John Hargrove take on truth

• Cannot separate world truth from God truth,  they have to cohere, make sense, God created and designed the world we live in,  broken as it is, we can discern reality and truth through the lens of the Word of God and that guides us on a true journey based on the path that God wants us on.