"In upcoming discussions I want to define truth and why it's so important to seek and resolve to believe absolute truth as opposed to "many truths" that may sound appealing and all-encompassing, accepting and tolerant, but actually are completely imaginary...like a child's imaginary friend. I also want to show you why insisting on believing in fallacy is deadly."
I didn't mean to imply that believing a myth is deadly in the eternal sense (rot in hell stuff), but deadly NOW. Let's examine the meaning of deadly as the adverb I used it: "In a way resembling or suggesting death; as if dead." Believing in a myth means we live a dead life. Our thoughts bring death, our feelings bring death. This happens because we have placed our experiences and emotions far above reality. We then cause our reality. For example, if I believe that people are jerks and out to get me, I will live in that reality. No doubt manipulative jerks exist, but they do not have to rule my experiences. I can shrug them off and think, "that poor jerk doesn't have a clue about his/her value in the kingdom. Help him/her, Lord!" If superstition rules my life and I think every time I spill salt, walk under a ladder, or a black cat crosses my path, I'm screwed, I unleash hell to persecute me.
Before you scoff at what appears to be eery spiritual hokum, let me submit to you that the spiritual side of life trumps the physical, whether you decide to believe that or not. Much like living in an impoverished third world without the luxury of televisions, computers, books and cell phones, this would shape you into believing certain things don't exist, such as Ferrari's, McDonalds, and polar bears, all because you have never seen or heard of them. In like manner, just because you haven't experienced or seen the spiritual in a way that has convinced you of it's reality does not mean it is nonexistent. Experience, emotions, and the rational mind are not be be-all end-all of TRUTH.
Before I quote scripture to prove the above, I first need to provide credible evidence that Scripture can be believed and trusted as reliable and accurate; that it isn't some brand of holy book on the same level as the Qur'an, the Talmud, the Tao-te-ching, the Veda, Apocrypha or Book of Mormon. I'm not slamming any of the former, but I also don't promise this blog to be politically correct and/or completely inoffensive.
As Jesus said in Matthew 10, "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household." (verses 34-36).
In part 3 of this series, I will attempt to show you, with the help of many scholars and scientists far smarter and more educated, why the Bible is THE BOOK of Truth.
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