What is Truth?

But no, pause for a moment—answer this question, what form of knowledge or truth are you seeking? Is it in the form of a mathematical solution to an equation which will unlock the physical mysteries of the Universe—or is it a philosophical notion or idea from which as base you may conquer all the intellectual difficulties of the world of thought? Or perhaps your goal is the finding of a counter to the ravages on mankind, or the finding of an escape from the seeming inevitability of war ?

These things contribute, you may say; yet the truth for which I seek cannot be explained in these alone. One cannot define it clearly, but I rather hope to realise it when achieved.

Here then is where Christianity makes its strongest claim. For 2000 years it has categorically stated that the Truth we seek is contained in the knowing of a person—Jesus Christ . . . God—yet became man. Crucified—yet living today. Truth which is not set apart from life or living but truth revealed in a person whom we as christians know to be the source of all life.