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Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:32
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Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] The right way to
get to the truth
thinkin' out loud
for you, Bill..
..truth includes
the statement 'this (or that) is false'
(iow, the
comment 'this is false' may indeed be true!)
true love
actually says 'this is false', 1) rather than 'this is true' (while
it's 'false'), and, 2) says it clearly (somehow) rather than saying
nothing at all..
..so, while
studyg Scripture, basically, the Word/s of God, a v consistently true love
is realizd..unlike any othr..
(E.g.) true love
is (e.g.) as 1 Cor 13 reports; (consistently) it is also
(e.g.) as Matt 23 reports
and both the Ap
Paul and Matt report (it) consistently elsewhre..
E.g.:
..earlier
in Matt's Gospl this dialog evolvd:
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said
unto him, [no doubt in a diff tone of voice than in Matt23] "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy mind.This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.On
these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
The respnse "Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God..." and "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.." had a v special,
truthful meaning with certain
implications--Jesus, willfully, simultaneously effectg
Mosaic leadership, obligated himself to love God as
only God's Messianic Son could love, also, to love the
questioner as only God, the Messiah
himself, could love
One (of
JCs) implications here, given the question/er, is that he
himself makes the Commandment/s 'Great' ; also, that all the
law and the prophets 'hang' on t/his 'greatness'
However, Matt's report, abv, is no diff in Matt 23:
virtually th (relatively same syllogistic) msg with certain
implications delvrd in a much diff tone of voice:
'..one is
your Father, which is in heaven.' (You shalt love the
Lord..)
'..one is your Master, even Christ.' (the Christ is
the Lord)
'..the greatest among you shall be your servant.' (you shall
love the Christ, the servant of you, by servg <--an implication rootd
in a literary double entendre)..
(gotta go--to a two man a logging operation, fellg several pine
tress and remvg them for a local church..)
Yeah, you've put your finger on the same pulse
that beats at me. You may be right, too. But I rather think of truth as
more an emergent property of relationships. Take away the
relationship and truth scoots out from under you. Another way of saying it
would be something on the order of truth being communal property. As
community grows truth is refined and clarified, kind of like what we're
doing -- but where the community fails the property is lost.
Anyway, thanks for the input. I'll ponder on
it.
