{"id":1325,"date":"2011-09-13T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2011-09-16T06:30:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T10:30:31","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-77\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS–Part 77"},"content":{"rendered":"

YES, HE is Talking to YOU!<\/h2>\n

What is truth? <\/strong>Was Pilate’s answer to Jesus and has been a question that has always beguiled\u00a0humanity. Truths are many though ultimately there is but one Great Truth which is our God. Beneath this however is a steady stream of truths dependent on our place and our beliefs. What may be a great truth to the Buddhist is considered a falsehood to the Christian and so on through most all religious and\u00a0philosophical\u00a0lines of thought. There is a truth that God exists but this is not shared by all because of differing perspectives on the matter. Our conscious personalities control the truth as we see it; what we are\u00a0physically,\u00a0emotionally and mentally as men in form plus what\u00a0we have learned from life, our nurture and our nature so to speak, combined with the Light from within and from above to create our own versions of the truth. In the True Light of the Inner Man lies the Truth, clouded by the glamour and the illusions of Life in form which come from the our nature and the nurture we have received.<\/p>\n

If we are of average intelligence, emotionally stable and in a well body and are brought up in a home where there is a certain attitude toward life, we will most likely exhibit that attitude.\u00a0Atheistic or religious Christian\u00a0upbringing will result in that predominance in our outward character. The atheist upbringing or being from a family background where parents and close persons have no spiritual lean whatsoever will result in a person with similar views. One may overcome this through outside learning or it may become repressed in his thinking depending on the nature of his overall personality. The idea of God may be rather alien to this person and the promptings of the Inner Man are either not seen or they are seen as conscience with no attachment to God or Spirit.<\/p>\n

The religious Christian family will bring up a child in a church going, praying family and this will result in a person who is\u00a0accustomed\u00a0to this but again, this can be overcome through outside learning and this too may become repressed dependeing on one’s personality makeup. For this person God is real and, depending on the level of religion on the family and the type of Christianity, the\u00a0promptings\u00a0of the Inner Man can be seen in a range from conscience based in one’s faith to the ‘voice of God’ speaking directly to him.<\/p>\n

The promptings can be the same for both and in many ways, for average good people, conscience is conscience; we understand right from wrong and good versus evil. These divergent upbringings may not result in either one having more or less or better or worse conscience. Now there are ‘leanings’ for each of us that are based upon our makeup and our attitudes plus what it is that we listen to and watch and who we associate with. A criminal attitude can come from either the religious home or the non-religious one and so can the saint. Chances of a normal life are found in each though it is likely that the religious upbringing can give a child a better ‘head start’.<\/p>\n

So here we are men in the world subject to all the preconceptions and ideas of virtue and vice that we have accumulated over the years of our lives. The Spirit of Truth is in each of us waiting to be noticed by the personality consciousness as we go through our days and nights. By its very nature it is always trying to get through and comes through in ideas and thoughts that we, as personalities, either accept and act on or ignore. Premonitions and flashes of intuition come to us; a sudden sense of understanding of a matter or an idea for a business or an invention come to us; we remember suddenly where some thing is or we see a vision of some\u00a0possibility of accomplishment. All these things can be seen as the promptings of the Inner Man, of the Soul and, for most of us and for a long long time, the majority of these go unheeded. But, by its very nature the Spirit of Truth continues to try to get our attention and to move us past our preconceptions and ideas and the glamour and the illusions of life.<\/p>\n

The Master had much to say about Truth which we can see as the very nature of the Father. God is Life, God is Love, and God is Truth can be another way of looking at the Trinity of the Christian faiths. The Father is the giver of all and the giver of Life; the Son is the Word, the creative and cohesive power of all and this is Love; the Holy Spirit is the Truth of all in this created universe. \u00a0In the major bible translations, before the ‘everyday English’ versions, Jesus is recorded as calling the truths that He was telling as a truth. <\/strong>Now we can look at this as just the way it is written or we can see it as the Master’s understanding of truth and His telling us that there is not just one truth in our everyday existence but many truths in this material world. More important than this are His teachings in the Gospel of John on Truth; let us look at some of what He said after a brief look at what the Apostle John says of the Master.<\/p>\n