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Dead data.<\/p>\n

That is the dominant, contemporary, sterile notion of truth.\u00a0 The notion that truth can be accumulated and stock-piled.\u00a0 You don\u2019t even need to decide which parts of it are important, never mind act on it.\u00a0 Think Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

But in Scripture truth is actualized and lived.\u00a0 And if it isn\u2019t, then it isn\u2019t truth yet \u2014- not in a sense that matters.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy, for example, urges the children of Israel, \u201cTeach your children the Law and to do it.\u201d <\/em>The last phrase is added over and over again, because it stresses a fundamental truth about truth.<\/p>\n

A truth doesn\u2019t matter until you live it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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