Omega Green
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I'm aware of the expression in John's gospel; "I am the way the truth and the life, and no man come to the father but by me".
What i'd like to establish is the sense in calling a person "the truth"? - Does this simply mean to imply that Jesus was a truth-telling person? Because technically, "truth" is in dictionaries called things like "the true or actual facts of a case". Or as Schopenhauer said: "Truth is the reference of a judgment to something outside of it as its sufficient reason". Thus when we examine conventional definitions of the word "truth", they become incoherant (apparently) when applied to the descriptor of a person. To say "Jesus is the Truth" is similar a kind of statement to "Elvis Priestley is the State of Affairs". It's unclear what is actually been said here. With no reference to something outside of a thing as its cause or sufficient reason; simply calling Jesus "the Truth" doesn't really proclaim a single fact; so is it a worshippy thing, to say this of him? A product of liturgy in the gospel authorship?
Thanks for your time.
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What i'd like to establish is the sense in calling a person "the truth"? - Does this simply mean to imply that Jesus was a truth-telling person? Because technically, "truth" is in dictionaries called things like "the true or actual facts of a case". Or as Schopenhauer said: "Truth is the reference of a judgment to something outside of it as its sufficient reason". Thus when we examine conventional definitions of the word "truth", they become incoherant (apparently) when applied to the descriptor of a person. To say "Jesus is the Truth" is similar a kind of statement to "Elvis Priestley is the State of Affairs". It's unclear what is actually been said here. With no reference to something outside of a thing as its cause or sufficient reason; simply calling Jesus "the Truth" doesn't really proclaim a single fact; so is it a worshippy thing, to say this of him? A product of liturgy in the gospel authorship?
Thanks for your time.
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