Don: The Truth personified in Jesus is a living, vital, transforming Truth: So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is…

Don: Jesus said: “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;…” (John 5:39) This tells us that the passion and the quest for truth about God is really a request for eternal life. This helps explain the radical nature of the pursuit—and…

Don: What we have been discussing is not just any truth, not scientific truth. We have been and are discussing specifically the truth about God. Why does Wo/Man have such an insatiable desire to pursue this truth, often with extreme and violent reaction? Why do we need to find God? It seems self-evident that there…

Don: We usually think of the truth as being a principle, idea, set of beliefs, or dataset of empirical information—some thing that corresponds to some reality. We don’t think of it as being some body. Jesus said that the Spirit of Truth is “He,” and that He will liberate you from something and sanctify you…

Don: The idea of the narrowing of the Way is mentioned twice by Jesus: “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is…

Jay: At the end of last week’s discussion we began to explore a seeming contradiction in scripture. On the one hand, we are shown a picture suggesting that most people will be saved: After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and…