1.) If I search for the ultimate "truth", will I find Jesus? Or do I have to search for Jesus to find "truth"? Some of you may say that they're the same thing (and they very well may be), but the order in which a person searches is what I'm inquiring about.
Is there a possibility of me NOT finding Jesus if I start by searching for the "truth"? And by "search", I mean within - and without the aid of the bible.
Which brings me to my second question:
2.) If God is the "truth", and He is within all of us, then the "truth" is within all of us. Why then must we depend on outside sources such as the Bible (or Q'uran or whatever else book there is) to define what "truth" is?
Thanks!
Hi Jesus is the truth.
He said; I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to Father except by me.
Jesus is God.
Jesus told us the greatest 2 commands were to love the Lord you God with all your heart
and
Love your neighbor as yourself.
God does not indwell those who are not in Christ.
So God is not within all people.
Once we come to Christ, the Holy Spirit, God is in us.
He is not in those who are not believers.
The bible says all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
The bible says we are blind, and dead prior to being in Jesus. Blind meaning can not see the things of God and dead to the things of God, and it means more as well.
We are also apart from God and need to be reconciled to Him.
there's much more going on, but as well, satan, or the devil, called the god of this world, lies, steals and murders, and part of his goal, a big part, is to keep people from God, to keep them in the darkness, and away from the light.
God is not far at all, He is very near; as is written the Kingdom of God is near you.
I say this because we are posting to you about Jesus, hence the kingdom of God is near you..
You can not see spiritual things, beings, nor can we. But we can see and know spiritual truths, such as can not be known apart from being in Christ.
So you ask about seeking.. some seek, by reading things about Jesus. The bible is the place to read of God.
We are told we are dead to spiritual truths so you can intellectually read the bible, but spiritually you can't recieve the truths given, that is, in your heart.
So, though some do study of Jesus to consider Him.
Some, it has led them to Christ, others not.
I had very little knowledge of Jesus when I came to Christ, and of course will be forever growing in Him and learning more.
Others have more knowledge.
They all, who are in Christ, or majority, committed their lives to Christ and determined they would live for Christ and not for the world. They would turn from worldy things and to the things of God. Once in Christ, we serve God alone, Jesus alone, and all He's given us to do and as well as is other things written to help us in our walk with Jesus.
Jesus died and was resurrected for our sins, and much more. He defeated satan, though until the end times, we are still in this world, and still will be dealing with satan or the evil he and demons cause here on earth all in the spiritual realm, which again we can not see.
We also sin against each other, we sin, another sins, and this also adds to the evil in the world.
Jesus comes and teaches us what to do, first is to come to faith in Him, having faith it is He, Jesus, who died and was resurrected for our sins. Committing one's life to Jesus. Having faith that now what one used to trust in themselves for and the world for that now Jesus is our all in all.
We struggle all our lives as Christians and in the above and in many things, and yet we kow God is with us through it all.
Once we come to Christ we are a new creation, born again, the scales (so to speak) which blinded us fall off, and we now see spiritual truths, and truths of the heart which we could not grasp before.
Once in Jesus our walk begins with Him begins and He teaches us as I said many things, some of which I'm sure you have heard. The rest of the bible also teaches us about Jesus and many things, truths, to help us.
The bible says our struggle is not against flesh and blood, hence not each other, but against wickedness in high places. (parapharased) demons is what it is speaking of.
Fighting some kind of spiritual battle over believers and non believers.
Once in Christ, we are secure in Jesus, no one can snatch us from the Fathers hand.
Bible tells us we will face many struggles and trials in this life. Non believers also do, but so that you are aware that being in Christ does not mean things we formerly sought from the world for our comfort are no comfort at all. As anything can be gone in a second, and with Christ, we will always have Jesus, no matter what earthly things we may not have, and no matter what we face.
We in Christ, as we grow in Him can be rich in spiritual blessings, not worldly ones, though any person can have wealth, but certainly money and things are in no wise what Jesus desires us to seek after. We are once in Christ, not of this world, this is not our home.
We are to take up the cross daily and follow Christ, be Christ to others, dying to ourselves and serving others and doing good.
Now Jesus is our comfort, and we may die for our faith in Christ, many things may and will occur to us, and yet God is there walking thru it with us, and will work all to our good, yet we may not even see how that is done.
Once we believe in Christ by faith (faith in what is unseen), and we are born again, a new creation in Christ, God indwelling us, and much more, as I said, our walk begins, and you will see about such as when you come to Christ, the commandments given us to do or not to do, which we may fail at and often, but yet we strive for.
Now reconciled with God and by reading the bible our minds are renewed (changed) and in the end, we will forever be with God.
God bless,
tapero
