Read John 18:37-38
37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
Discussion
In these scriptures, Pilate asks Jesus, “What is truth?”
Have you ever done something like break a window, break a toy, or gone somewhere without telling your parents , and then they ask you to tell them the truth of what happened or where you were, what does this mean? What is truth?
When you look up truth in the Oxford dictionary it gives the 3 following definitions for the word truth:
1. The quality or state of being true.
So truth means that you say what is true
2. That which is true or in accordance with fact or reality.
This definition says that truth is what is real or a fact.
3. A fact or belief that is accepted as true.
This means that if you or others accept something as true, then it is a truth.
This 3rd definition seems a little off, because if a truth is flexible, depending on who thinks it’s true, is it really true?
If you broke a window and believed that the window is not broken, and you could convince your friends and siblings that it is not actually broken, does that mean it is not actually broken?
Let’s see what the scriptures say truth is
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Truth gives you freedom. It makes you happy.
D&C 84:45 For the word of the Lord is truth, and whatsoever is truth is light, and whatsoever is light is Spirit, even the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
This means that truth brings light, and this light is the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
D&C 93:23-25 Ye were also in the beginning with the Father; that which is Spirit, even the Spirit of truth; And truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come; And whatsoever is more or less than this is the spirit of that wicked one who was a liar from the beginning.
Truth gives us the knowledge of things as they were, as they are, and as they will be. If something that one believes to be true, doesn’t do these things, then it is not truth.
D&C 93:29-30 Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be. All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, to act for itself, as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence.
Truth has and always will exist. It existed before the world was made and it will exist afterwards. Truth is eternal and is not created or made. Because truth is eternal, it can’t be changed or manipulated, depending on what people want.
Isn’t it wonderful that you can depend on truth?
As a family, talk about some things that you know are true.
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