John 9 - Now I see
Standing for the Truth is vital, but what if our "truth" needs tweaking?
History is full of people who passionately defended what they felt was true, but which seems more questionable to us in retrospect. This problem is not new - exactly the same thing occurred in Biblical times. Throughout the Gospels people struggle to accept the Truth in Jesus because of their passion for defending truth they inherited or developed. John 9 tells a fascinating story all about knowledge, which highlights the way that conversations about truth are often motivated by working out who is in and who is out. We take comfort in Jesus being "the way the truth and the life", and it seems that standing on the truth still allows room for growth and even uncertainty.
History is full of people who passionately defended what they felt was true, but which seems more questionable to us in retrospect. This problem is not new - exactly the same thing occurred in Biblical times. Throughout the Gospels people struggle to accept the Truth in Jesus because of their passion for defending truth they inherited or developed. John 9 tells a fascinating story all about knowledge, which highlights the way that conversations about truth are often motivated by working out who is in and who is out. We take comfort in Jesus being "the way the truth and the life", and it seems that standing on the truth still allows room for growth and even uncertainty.