In Search of the Truth
What is truth? Is there a way of finding it without a doubt? YES.
If ten different people approached you in a situation one day, and each of them claimed to have "the truth", which one would be right? Would any of them be right? How could you know? In a world of confusion and chaos with literally thousands of groups, sects, cults, religions, denominations - who has "the truth". They cannot all be right. How could one tell? Is there an answer - a solution - a technique or method by which we can know which one would be right?
To these questions, I will give you an answer. Not only will I give you the answer, but the answer I show you will be absolutely, positively, without question, without a doubt - be an answer that will totally and completely put away all doubt, all debate, all possibility of further discussion on the subject. There will not ever be another question about it, or another argument on issues of life. It will not be followed by "yes, but....." It will be final. It will be without reservation, a total and conclusive answer- leaving no doubt, no debate, no room for any reply or argument. That answer is this:
When you die.
Now to that, you may say "What kind of answer is that! That is absurd. That is ridiculous. That answer is insane. Are you going to tell me that to find the truth to so many questions in life, I am going to have to die?" Yes. And when you do, you will know. You will absolutely, positively know without question, what those answers are that you had about things all your life.
Upon hearing this totally outrageous answer, you are now going to demand your money back! You somehow feel that you have been swindled out of five minutes of your time reading this ridiculous paper, totally wasting your time with some conniving, crooked insanity. However, in spite of what you think about the answer - let me show you a couple of interesting characteristics about your reaction:
1-This answer seems to be some backhanded copout - some underhanded catch-all that totally relieves the writer from all responsibility, that no one can know of these "revelations" until he dies, therefore we are left to a futile solution until then - which essentially is no solution at all.
2-This answer seems to go totally against our grain - against our normal excuses, ideas, techniques, methods we use in life to find answers to our questions. Which is exactly the point. Because that is the irony of it, and, not only that, but I have good news for you. For I expect your immediate reaction to all this to be "How can we know the truth now? How can we find answers now? My answer?
Die now.
So now, you say, my answer is even more absurd - more ridiculous than the first. About as ridiculous as the Pharisee who came to Jesus one night and was told "You must be born again." His reply: "How can someone be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?" He did not understand the answer. He was thinking with his natural mind. But we must look past that. We must see past man's thinking and contemplate some things we are not accustomed to doing.
When I say that "We must die now", I am saying this:
--We must die to self. We must die to preconceived ideas, opinions, and philosophies.
--We must die to things we have been attached to, in bondage to.
--We must die to some culture, tradition or background that may have been holding us back.
--We must die to emotional attachments or bondages that prevent us from finding the truth.
--We must die to all aspects of life that are standing in the way, whether family, relatives, loved-ones, careers, possessions or ties that have us in their clutches.
--We must be willing, if need be, to walk away from anything and everything that stands in the way of that quest for truth.
Let me give you an example:
Suppose you are in someone's living room as a guest, sitting around a circle with others in a group, and some topic comes up. It is a discussion about some controversial issue, and the consensus of opinion is wrong thinking. You know it is wrong, because it is an issue you have seen before, and compromised because of today's viewpoint on it has been watered down. So you disagree with the group, because you know what is right. But many of these people are good friends of yours, and you find yourself in a predicament about it, faced with the ultimatum of "going along with the crowd" for the sake of peace, or making an unpopular decision to stand against it. You ultimately find yourself disagreeing with them, and your response has caused division. It has created animosity suddenly, and unpopularity. But for the sake of truth, you have had to "forsake" a bond. You have had to "walk away", as it were, from a mentality that you know is wrong. To play along, taking a back seat on the issue would be nothing more than hypocrisy. For you know in your heart what is right, but have betrayed truth to keep peace. Some fickle friendship has been preserved at the expense of truth.
This is the type of thing we are talking about. One has to "leave" what was once dear to him. Perhaps it may be something he is very attached to - maybe a friendship or acquaintance that had lasted for years. This is the road to freedom. This is the path one must take if he or she is to find the truth. "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free"
(c) 2003 David Film. www.DavidFilm.ShortURL.com
To these questions, I will give you an answer. Not only will I give you the answer, but the answer I show you will be absolutely, positively, without question, without a doubt - be an answer that will totally and completely put away all doubt, all debate, all possibility of further discussion on the subject. There will not ever be another question about it, or another argument on issues of life. It will not be followed by "yes, but....." It will be final. It will be without reservation, a total and conclusive answer- leaving no doubt, no debate, no room for any reply or argument. That answer is this:
When you die.
Now to that, you may say "What kind of answer is that! That is absurd. That is ridiculous. That answer is insane. Are you going to tell me that to find the truth to so many questions in life, I am going to have to die?" Yes. And when you do, you will know. You will absolutely, positively know without question, what those answers are that you had about things all your life.
Upon hearing this totally outrageous answer, you are now going to demand your money back! You somehow feel that you have been swindled out of five minutes of your time reading this ridiculous paper, totally wasting your time with some conniving, crooked insanity. However, in spite of what you think about the answer - let me show you a couple of interesting characteristics about your reaction:
1-This answer seems to be some backhanded copout - some underhanded catch-all that totally relieves the writer from all responsibility, that no one can know of these "revelations" until he dies, therefore we are left to a futile solution until then - which essentially is no solution at all.
2-This answer seems to go totally against our grain - against our normal excuses, ideas, techniques, methods we use in life to find answers to our questions. Which is exactly the point. Because that is the irony of it, and, not only that, but I have good news for you. For I expect your immediate reaction to all this to be "How can we know the truth now? How can we find answers now? My answer?
Die now.
So now, you say, my answer is even more absurd - more ridiculous than the first. About as ridiculous as the Pharisee who came to Jesus one night and was told "You must be born again." His reply: "How can someone be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?" He did not understand the answer. He was thinking with his natural mind. But we must look past that. We must see past man's thinking and contemplate some things we are not accustomed to doing.
When I say that "We must die now", I am saying this:
--We must die to self. We must die to preconceived ideas, opinions, and philosophies.
--We must die to things we have been attached to, in bondage to.
--We must die to some culture, tradition or background that may have been holding us back.
--We must die to emotional attachments or bondages that prevent us from finding the truth.
--We must die to all aspects of life that are standing in the way, whether family, relatives, loved-ones, careers, possessions or ties that have us in their clutches.
--We must be willing, if need be, to walk away from anything and everything that stands in the way of that quest for truth.
Let me give you an example:
Suppose you are in someone's living room as a guest, sitting around a circle with others in a group, and some topic comes up. It is a discussion about some controversial issue, and the consensus of opinion is wrong thinking. You know it is wrong, because it is an issue you have seen before, and compromised because of today's viewpoint on it has been watered down. So you disagree with the group, because you know what is right. But many of these people are good friends of yours, and you find yourself in a predicament about it, faced with the ultimatum of "going along with the crowd" for the sake of peace, or making an unpopular decision to stand against it. You ultimately find yourself disagreeing with them, and your response has caused division. It has created animosity suddenly, and unpopularity. But for the sake of truth, you have had to "forsake" a bond. You have had to "walk away", as it were, from a mentality that you know is wrong. To play along, taking a back seat on the issue would be nothing more than hypocrisy. For you know in your heart what is right, but have betrayed truth to keep peace. Some fickle friendship has been preserved at the expense of truth.
This is the type of thing we are talking about. One has to "leave" what was once dear to him. Perhaps it may be something he is very attached to - maybe a friendship or acquaintance that had lasted for years. This is the road to freedom. This is the path one must take if he or she is to find the truth. "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free"
(c) 2003 David Film. www.DavidFilm.ShortURL.com
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