RE: [TruthTalk] False Critical text

[ShieldsFamily]

The point IS: you seem to think that Unity is more important than Truth.  (I hope not, but that’s how it’s looking.) Seeking Unity is the path to compromise and humanism.  Seeking Truth will (incidentally) bring us into unity with other true Believers.  (The God-kind of unity.)  Izzy Well, you are close.  I believe there to be such a thing as "truth."   I do not believe that I can ever be fully assured that I have possessed this "truth."    It is Paul who tells us not to put our faith in knowing  (I Co 8:1-3).  To argue against scripture and this statement is to deny the reality of growth and intellectual change.   Unity will never be achieved on the basis of agreement.    Surely you can see the difference between love, respect, empathy and the like AND intellectualism.     There are those on this forum who criticize "intellectualism."  A humorous circumstance, IMO, in view of the fact that their legalistic stance is, at it's core, a type of intellectualism.    But you speak of "seeking truth."   A curve ball.   Actually, I could agree with this.    I have the highest respect for Lance and Gary and Bill and Jon and others -------------------    we do have one thing in common, the search for that which is true.   It is with those who are no longer searching with whom I have problems.   When you say "I Know," you do not yet know as you ought.  That is scripture.   That is my position on "truth."  JD       You sound like Pontius Pilate.  Jesus tells us we can know the truth—He IS the Truth.  If we know Him (really), we know all the Truth that matters.  I agree that seeking doctrinal agreement is not the path—it is one of the consequences of being on the path to life.  (As I Cor 8:1-3 states) To assume that you and your cohorts are the only ones seeking ever-deeper relationship with Jesus (and truth) seems to lack humility. (Did I phrase that gently enough?)  Izzy   Jn 8:31So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;  32and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."