{"id":71978,"date":"2025-08-01T01:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=71978"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:19:13","slug":"truth-serum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2025\/08\/01\/truth-serum\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUTH SERUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>TRUTH SERUM<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is truth like rubber,<\/p>\n<p>Infinitely flexible<\/p>\n<p>Without breaking?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or is truth like a diamond<\/p>\n<p>Multi-faceted<\/p>\n<p>Refracting pure light<\/p>\n<p>Into many colors?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or is truth like a brick wall<\/p>\n<p>Unyielding<\/p>\n<p>Something you run into<\/p>\n<p>At your own risk<\/p>\n<p>Realizing you\u2019ve reached a boundary<\/p>\n<p>That should not be crossed?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or is truth something ineffable<\/p>\n<p>Something you discover by accident<\/p>\n<p>While in the process of loving someone?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or is truth unattainable<\/p>\n<p>Something that is clearly out there<\/p>\n<p>And yet you can never full grasp it?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or is truth irrelevant<\/p>\n<p>To ordinary day to day life<\/p>\n<p>Something only brought up<\/p>\n<p>In rare and necessary circumstances,<\/p>\n<p>When a cure or a conviction is needed?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is truth bendable<\/p>\n<p>And does it matter when it\u2019s bent or manipulated<\/p>\n<p>What changes when that happens?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or is truth an absolute,<\/p>\n<p>Such that there is no such thing as<\/p>\n<p>My truth or your truth, but only THE TRUTH<\/p>\n<p>Which is universally the same for everyone?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is truth something that is discovered or recovered<\/p>\n<p>Or believed and received<\/p>\n<p>Does it come like a stone through a plate glass window<\/p>\n<p>Shattering the previous status quo?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But what if truth is a person,<\/p>\n<p>A great I AM.<\/p>\n<p>What if it\u2019s not an idea or an abstraction<\/p>\n<p>But a being, in fact THE Being<\/p>\n<p>That founded all things?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What if in the beginning was the Truth<\/p>\n<p>And the Truth was with God<\/p>\n<p>And the Truth was God,<\/p>\n<p>A God to whom all are answerable?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What if no clever questions like<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What is truth\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>Can help a person escape<\/p>\n<p>The claim truth has on them?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What if the alienated<\/p>\n<p>Must make a truce with truth<\/p>\n<p>And the lost must allow themselves to be found<\/p>\n<p>And the jaundiced must be surprised by joy?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What if the truth can indeed set you free?<\/p>\n<p>But free from what, or whom?<\/p>\n<p>Is freedom just freedom from, or is it also freedom to, or more importantly freedom for?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What if we are being pursued by truth<\/p>\n<p>All the while we are trying to catch up to it.<\/p>\n<p>And this is so because He is full of grace <em>and truth?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And he tells the truth, the whole truth,<\/p>\n<p>And nothing but the truth.<\/p>\n<p>No shadow of turning,<\/p>\n<p>No changing his mind<\/p>\n<p>The same yesterday, today, and forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BUT ALAS\u2026OUR WORLD IS SUFFERING FROM A SERIOUS CASE OF TRUTH DECAY<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LORD HAVE MERCY,\u00a0 CHRIST HAVE MERCY.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BW3<\/p>\n<p>8\/1\/25<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUTH SERUM \u00a0 Is truth like rubber, Infinitely flexible Without breaking? 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