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Monday, August 12, 2002

On Truth

An excerpt from "Why are Christians losing America?" by David Kupelian:

Truth predates the incarnation of Christ, it predates the Bible. It's the substance of our bond with God. If you have a love of truth, you're just not ever really satisfied with anything else, and you want to know the truth about everything; especially about yourself. If you're wrong about something, you want to know it. If you've been living a lie, you're willing to see it, no matter what the cost.

If you don't have a little bit of this quality, you don't have squat... even if you call yourself a Christian.

At the core of this life-changing religion is the individual believer's love and appreciation and acceptance and embrace of Christ's sacrifice--the ultimate demonstration of God's love for His wayward children. But the problem with the way Christianity is "taught" today is that it doesn't require a love of truth. It doesn't require honest introspection, or courage, or self-denial, or patience. The only ingredient it needs is a guilty person who's sick of feeling guilty, who wants relief, wants to feel better about himself and doesn't want to go to Hell. But even the most insincere person wants to feel better about himself, wants relief from guilt, and fears death and what may lie beyond.

If we really believe, every area of our lives will reflect it--otherwise we are living a lie.

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