Monday, September 24, 2007

FAMILY VALUES - TRUTH

J.I. Packer- “Because God is what he is everything else is as it is.”

Truth is reality & Ultimate reality is God who the bible says is himself the essence of all that is true.
Mystery believes in one True Triune God- Sovereign, Perfect, Just, and loving.

God’s truth is not explained by us- it explains us.
Truth is not found, it is Revealed in creation, in through the Bible and primarily in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Mystery believes the Bible is God’s self-disclosure to mankind, the final authority for faith and life. All of the Bible leads us to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone

Jesus is Truth and is Life for those who receive him as Savior and Lord by faith alone.
In our day and age truth as seen as relative, everything is to be questioned- including then relativism.
Ideas have consequences-“Ways of thinking produce ways of acting”- Piper
Bible is either about you or Jesus. Only one of those is true.