Most of the time.
There is one specific question, though, that demands an answer now. The question was asked in a comment posted by one of your colleagues. It goes like this:
I struggle with the unreachable nature of truth. It seems like a problem to me. Since I can't be infinitely aware, how can I ever be sure of anything? I'm really not sure.
There is at least one thing that we can know for sure as Truth: There is a God. He exists. He is real.
There is another thing that we can know for sure: There is Absolute Truth. That Truth is God and found in God.
So the question now becomes, how do we access that truth?
Let's face it, as your colleague so succinctly stated, "I can't be infinitely aware." I gain access to Absolute Truth by gaining access to God. How? God is perfect, Holy, untouchable. To be in his presence is blinding. We are a people of unclean lips and hands and hearts and minds. How do we bridge the gap? Christ and Christ alone.
We do not need priests, idols, sacrifices, thousands of empty prayers and empty deeds. We only need Christ. He is the True High Priest in the True Temple offering the True Sacrifice on our behalf. He intercedes for us and represents us to the Father. Christ shows us the way. He shows us how to live and love and learn and grow in the paths - those straight and narrow paths that he talks about - that lead to God. We cannot make it on our own. No law, no actions or group of actions, no supererogatory performance of our own is capable of flinging us over the gap between humanity and God. Only following Christ and allowing Him to be our Savior, Lord, and Intercessor can we ever get any where close to Truth.
Yes, Absolute Truth exists and it is accessible through God. If you are seeking the Truth about the Universe, humanity, society, nature, technology, your role in the world, your purpose in life, where better to go than to The Creator of all? God, accessible and available through Christ.
Now in some ways this may seem like a trite or canned answer. I know that you have heard this answer thousands of times at church or Bible school, or Bible class. Maybe we have heard it so many times, but not really heard it. The power of Christianity is found in the words that you have just read. The Good News that the Apostles were so excited about is that through Christ the bridge between God and Man has been built. We can now access God, His Truth, His Knowledge, His Power, His Creativity, and His Love. What an amazing thing!
So why am I answering this question? Because the question is very hard to answer. The path to the answer is murky and difficult. It is an answer that is hard to understand, hard to fathom, and hard to reach. But most importantly, this answer is not the end of the journey. This answer is just the beginning. If we accept that God exists and is the source of Absolute Truth and that this Absolute Truth is accessbile through Christ, then we have just begun our journey.
Understanding what Christ has done for us sets us on a life time journey of trying to understand what the implications of his sacrifice was. Trying to understand in our limited frame the unlimitedness of God and His Mercy and Grace and Truth. Every morsel of Truth that we discover leads us closer to the source of All Truth.
Are there other roads? Sure! There are all kinds of roads that have been blazed in efforts to find truth. Roads that lead through self deprivation, self destruction, pleasure, pain, service, respect, despair, glory, contentment, minimalism, consumerism, consumptionism, self grandification, self exploration, and on and on. In the end, these are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. Empty words that fill up the air and then float away. A chasing after things that are ephemeral and ultimately empty. You may journey these roads at different points in your life. I just hope that you see at some point that they are empty, barren, fruitless plains of existence. I hope that you return to the hard way - the difficult and narrow way - at some point.
May you be blessed as you struggle on your journey. I cannot make the journey for you as I am on the same journey. Sometimes I may be ahead; other times you may be ahead. For brief times, we will walk together. You will meet others on the road - like Jimmy Allen, Jeff Hopper, Don England, Robin Miller, Ann Dixon, Lori Sloan, Debbie Ganus, Donna Jo Roberson, Debbie Baird - but they all are on the same road trying to answer the same questions - pursuing the Absolute Truth found in God and accessible through Christ. When you across them, learn from them and teach them. But no matter what, follow Christ. He knows the way, He is the Way, and He leads us to The Truth that we so desperately are searching for.
