What is the best path to find truth; science, math, art, philosophy, or something else? The definition of each one of these paths matters greatly, of course. Science and math in the way we usually define them are not as comprehensive. Rightly understood, philosophy subsumes the truths uncovered by science and math into itself and its greater quest. Philosophy rightly understood is the attempt to grasp the whole—to see what truly is. Art rightly understood or at its best reveals the same, or what we can grasp of it. But art is not the actual quest to know what’s true. It has other purposes and is also a kind of expression or creation of man. So philosophy—understood not formally as the word is used in our awful schools, but as the love of wisdom and the quest to seek out the truth about the whole—is the most obvious path, even if few today even know what this would look like.
In my own journey to understand Truth, I have explored many avenues. One thing I have found for certain: truth is bigger than what can be understood by mortal man. He who claims to know it, has fashioned it by his will and thereby diminished it to be less than it is. I long for the day when God takes me home and I will be able to see it clearly.
Thought experiment: If God (or your child) asked you all that same question, would your answer be the same or would it be more boldly prophetic of what the world (or your child) needs to hear about Truth in this time of great unbelief? As a Christian, I would start with a politically incorrect WWJD statement: “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
In my own journey to understand Truth, I have explored many avenues. One thing I have found for certain: truth is bigger than what can be understood by mortal man. He who claims to know it, has fashioned it by his will and thereby diminished it to be less than it is. I long for the day when God takes me home and I will be able to see it clearly.
Thought experiment: If God (or your child) asked you all that same question, would your answer be the same or would it be more boldly prophetic of what the world (or your child) needs to hear about Truth in this time of great unbelief? As a Christian, I would start with a politically incorrect WWJD statement: “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”