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Can Truth Be Known? How

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Of course Truth can be known. Christ promised that the Paraclete will be with His Church forever.


John 14:16 And I will ask the Father: and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever:
14:17 The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he shall abide with you and shall be in you.
Thank you for that point.
So, do you agree that those seeking truth can find it through Jesus' followers whom he guides by holy spirit?

How do these ones hear, listen, and follow?
Romans 10:13-15
13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.​
14 How can people have faith in the Lord and ask him to save them, if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear, unless someone tells them?​
15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news.​

Would you agree or disagree that it is by
  • listening to those Jesus sends to preach the good news;
  • examining the scriptures to see if these things are so; Acts 17:11
  • accepting and applying what they are taught... if it aligns with the scriptures Acts 17:12
?
Can we not therefore use the scriptures to come to know truth... with the help of those Jesus sends?

Did I not speak correctly in line with the scriptures?
The scriptures repeatedly say that listening to Jesus involves listening to his followers. Mark 6:11; 1 John 4:6
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
 
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