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What Is Truth?

What Is Truth?. Part Three The Wrong Attitude Toward Truth. Postmodernism vs. the Bible. Part 1: Our modern world is suffering from truth decay … among many, truth is no longer 1) knowable, 2) absolute, 3) objective), or 4) universal = postmodernism

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What Is Truth?

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  1. What Is Truth? Part Three The Wrong Attitude Toward Truth

  2. Postmodernism vs. the Bible • Part 1: Our modern world is suffering from truth decay … among many, truth is no longer 1) knowable, 2) absolute, 3) objective), or 4) universal = postmodernism • Part 2: The Bible speaks of things that are true and of the nature of truth (truth is what conforms to reality) • Part 3: One’s attitude and responsibility toward truth is not always what it should be (Isa. 59:14-15; Jer. 7:27-28)

  3. The Wrong Attitude Toward Truth • the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive for it beholds him not, neither knows him – Jn. 14:17 • hinder the truth in unrighteousness – Rom. 1:18 • exchanged the truth of God for a lie – Rom. 1:25 • obey not the truth – Rom. 2:8 (see also Gal. 5:7) • received not the love of the truth – 2 Thess. 2:10

  4. The Wrong Attitude Toward Truth • believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness – 2 Thess. 2:12 • bereft of the truth – 1 Tim. 6:5 • who concerning the truth have erred – 2 Tim. 2:18 • never able to come to the knowledge of the truth – 2 Tim. 3:7 • withstand the truth – 2 Tim. 3:8

  5. The Wrong Attitude Toward Truth • turn away their ears from the truth – 2 Tim. 4:4 • men who turn away from the truth – Tit. 1:14 • sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth – Heb. 10:26 • err from the truth – Jas. 5:19 • the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of – 2 Pet. 2:2

  6. The Wrong Attitude Toward Truth • we lie, and do not the truth – 1 Jn. 1:6 (see 1:8; 2:4)

  7. Why Such A Wrong Attitude? • Many love friends and family more than truth (Jn. 12:42-43)? • Others try to stamp out truth (Acts 4:17)? • What attitude toward truth will you have today?

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