I'll try, tec, I really will.
Thank you. I appreciate that. I know sometimes I do not 'get' what another person is saying or asking because the question relies on philosophical or theological terms and concepts that i have not read or studied.
Yours is a very personal faith, and what you believe is very dependent on that trustworthy inner voice of yours.
Okay.
No-one else can hear it of course, so I have to take your word for it.
No.
Others CAN hear Him. They have stated so themselves.
I also do not want anyone to take my word for anything, nor do you have to. I do not take anyone else's word for anything. You can look for yourself in the testimonies that are written down, in what Christ, himself, is written to have said. But above all, you can ask Him to show you, to help you see, to help you hear. Then have faith in Him that He will do as you ask. That is what I did. Didn't happen all at once. My fear and my baggage from previous teachings stood in my way. But Christ and God are both patient, and their love does not fail.
Knowing that no-one else can hear it, though, means that your statements cannot be tested, tried, or questioned. To a skeptic, that means they are not trustworthy.
Anything that I state can be tested. Against other testimonies, against what is known of Christ and written down, and also against love, and also against the Spirit. So yes, everything can and should be tested, tried, or questioned. I know that i have done these with anything that someone else states about or from the Spirit.
I am not asking anyone, including a skeptic, to take my word for anything. Truly.
You point to Christ as Truth with a capital "T". Does that give an extra quality of truthfulness to Christ,
No. It is one of His titles, so it is more of a respect thing. Truth of God. Like... Word of God. I also don't think something can be extra truthful. It either is truth or it is not truth.
your untestable mentor? It seems that you deny this.
He is not untestable, as I hope I explained.
Now I understand someone who is not a person of faith, looking at a statement Christ is Truth, and it meaning nothing to them. But for someone whose faith is in Christ... then the objections do not make sense to me.
Perhaps it is a problem with what it is being perceived as meaning?
Christ is the Truth... He knows and speaks the truth... and He is the Truth of God. There is no lie in Him. Truth... being an absence of lies.
That does not mean that something else cannot be true. My jeans have a hole in the knee. That information is true. But that information is not Christ.
Again, to a skeptic, your proclamations of Christ as the Truth drives me to rip wide that curtain to see if anything is behind there. If I find nothing, that is equally the truth.
Rip away. Test, ask, seek, question.
If you find nothing, then you finding nothing is true. It is not necessarily true that there is nothing though. Only that you did not find it... for whatever reason.
Peace,
tammy
