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Hierarchy in truths censored

peter2

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Let me please propose what i guess is a non exhaustive list of truth censored, whatever form the censoring takes, that is :
1. through obstructing ears, disbelieving, or brushing truth under carpets, like some dust ;
2. through displaying worldly, spectacular and attractive futilities, that distract listeners' attention from truths that really matters
3. through lying, for instance, falsely testifying, denying, etc..,
4. through killing the truth witness, etc..

From the less politically correct to the more worldly
Here is my list :
- The truth Jesus replied Pilate he's come to testify of (1)
- This truth Jesus being Son of God, turned into blasphemy (1, 3, 4)
- The truths in the inside of the Bible that commonly fall in oblivion on dusty bookshelves. (1)

- The truths in detective novels, sometimes no longer fashionable, from lack of interest (1)
- The truths when judging judicial cases ; sometimes, negociations are decisive, whereas the final decision should stem from pure truth

If you want to comment, please, do proceed.
(It looks like my taste for truth seeking is leading me towards the study of the resistance it encounters)
 

peter2

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Hello everyone
i try and become more circonspect
Indeed, i used to think there's no sensitive truth that deserve being processed as "taboo". For me, truth was always something beautiful that people shouldn't be ashamed with.
Yet, i see in today's "Daily Gospel" this injonction from Jesus himself for the healed leper not to speak of his recovery to anyone, but to the priest, so as to be a proof for them (Mk 1 40-45). But the healed man publicized the whole matter..

It looks like the leper, however healed by Jesus, was not willing to conform to his plan.
But, what reason did Jesus have to trust the healed leper ?

For me, i guess the leper is an instrument for displaying again a truth as how the sons of this world behave against light. Indeed, i don't think Jesus 'd actually trusted the leper.
He just aimed at warning the Gospel reader about the relationship between darkness and light.
Indeed,
the proof wasn't established of the miracle, in the manner Jesus 'd wished, that is, through the priest. It was rather in the manner the world wished, that prevented Jesus from being recognized by priesthood.
And the information in this latter sentence would be what Jesus already intended to warn the Gospel reader about
 
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The bible calls four things truth, God the Father, God, the son, God the Holy Spirit, and the word of God.

Satan runs this world for now (Eph 2:2). Since he is the father of lies, one would expect the world to be filled with every imaginable deception. Most deceptions are designed to appeal to the flesh (greed, pride, fear, laziness, etc.)

The path to grow closer to truth lies in transitioning from the flesh to the Spirit
 
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Hello timf, thank you as well
i greet your participating this thread, for as you said, satan runs this world. Thus my understanding of the message of the cross is not only the love of the Father for men, namely through his giving his son, letting his life being sacrificed, through the gift of faith as well, ..etc.., and of Truth, but also the hatred of satan for It, which hatred you might also perceive through the censoring of Truth.
Hope you are strong in faith, for i guess bearing what this thread suggests requires strength against worldly adversity.
 
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