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What is the Truth?

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Rene:
Hi Bambam,

A couple of years ago, the Lord put it in my heart to "search" for the true religion.  I just knew that there was a "truth" out there some where.  I had been both a Baptist and a Jehovah's Witness.  I was confused and frustrated.  The Lord sent me on a "research" journey of Christian religions.  He put it in my heart to look for His remnant church.  I knew it existed, I just didn't know where.  After months of "sampling" various Christian religions and searching many Christian websites, He led me to what I believe and know in my heart is the truth!

Pray and ask God to reveal "truth" to you.  This may sound like a simple answer, but the only way you will ever know the truth is when the Lord decides to reveal Himself to you.  Once that happens, your doubts and confusion will disappear and you will start to know the truth, and, as Jesus said, "...the truth will set you free." (John 8:32).

Rene'

chuckt:
hi all. good topic, i use to feel the same.

we all have to come to understand.

i live yet no longer i live but Christ liveth in me

it is hard all the differetn doctrines floating out there, i always come back to this:

1 If I should be speaking in the languages of men and of the messengers, yet should have no love, I have become resounding copper or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I should have prophecy and should be perceiving all secrets and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so as to transport mountains, yet have no love, I am nothing.3 And if ever I should be morselling out all my possessions, and if I should be giving up my body, that I should be boasting, yet may have no love, in nothing do I benefit.
4 Love is patient, is kind. Love is not jealous. Love is not bragging, is not puffed up,
5 is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not incensed, is not taking account of evil,
6 is not rejoicing in injustice, yet is rejoicing together with the truth,
7 is forgoing all, is believing all, is expecting all, is enduring all.
8 Love is never lapsing: yet, whether prophecies, they will be discarded, or languages, they will cease, or knowledge, it will be discarded.
9 For out of an instalment are we knowing, and out of an instalment are we prophesying.
10 Now whenever maturity may be coming, that which is out of an instalment shall be discarded.
11 When I was a minor, I spoke as a minor, I was disposed as a minor, I took account of things as a minor. Yet when I have become a man, I have discarded that which is a minor's.
12 For at present we are observing by means of a mirror, in an enigma, yet then, face to face. At present I know out of an instalment, yet then I shall recognize according as I am recognized also.
13 Yet now are remaining faith, expectation, love -- these three. Yet the greatest of these is love.



hang in there grow in LOVE.


chuckt

sasscell:
Hi BamBam.  I know exactly where you are comming from.  Whenever I hear or read something that throws my faith for a loop, I always can come back to a few simple truths:  If there is ONE thing that I KNOW beyond any doubt, it is that I AM A SINNER.  Who can deny it??  And if there is ONE THING a sinner needs, it's forgiveness.  NO OTHER RELIGION IN HISTORY OFFERS THIS, this is where Christianity stands alone.  No other religion, no other book speaks to and of the most basic human dilemma...SIN. THIS is why I believe that Jesus is the Christ, and the scriptures are His book.  Beyond that, yes, there are still contraversies within Christianity and raging millenia long debates over interrpretation of scripture.  However, God has graciously made certain Truths crystal clear to those who want to see.  For me these things are the bedrock I come back to...WHEN MY HEAD STARTS TO HURT!!

bambam:
Last night I read "...the Spirit is Truth."  I honestly thought every one would talk about having the Spirit, and that was how I would know the Truth.  Like, duh?  :D  But, it was not you who told me that.  No, I read it in 1 John chapter five.  The Spirit IS Truth.  So, it's all about a Person.  I have to say honestly, it does not make knowing the truth any easier.  But maybe I have been looking at this all wrong.  The Truth is the Spirit and knowing the Spirit IS knowing Truth.  I don't know.  I was even questioning the existence of God last night.  I think I have come back to my senses today a bit.  There is just so much that makes it hard.  Like God is love, but He is a God of wrath.  Those two attributes seem diametrically opposed but found in the same God.  Is He still love when He is full of wrath towards the heathen?  I think I am getting off the track here.  Sorry.  Thanks for all of the insight.  I am plugging along.  :-\

Beth :)

carol70:
God's wrath isn't without reason, considering how weak and evil the carnal mind is.

Rom 1:18  For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Rom 1:19  because the thing which may be known of God is clearly revealed within them, for God revealed it to them.
Rom 1:20  For the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being realized by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.
Rom 1:21  Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22  Professing to be wise, they became fools
Rom 1:23  and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

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