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How do we interact with culture (the world)? 1. Dont be OF the world ISOLATION How do we interact with culture (the world)? 2. Attack the world FIGHT How do we interact with culture (the world)? 3. We are IN the

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How do we “interact” with culture (the world)?

  • 1. Don’t be OF the world

ISOLATION

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How do we “interact” with culture (the world)?

  • 2. Attack the world

FIGHT

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How do we “interact” with culture (the world)?

  • 3. We are IN the world

SIMULATE

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How do we “interact” with culture (the world)?

  • 4. IN but not OF

LEARN AND FILTER

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This week’s message:

The Truth Narrative:

Truth is relative. Period.

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The Narrative:

What is Truth? It is so complicated to figure out, so just believe whatever you want and leave me alone.

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Understanding The Narrative:

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“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Four historical ways we have (and still do!) see Truth

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Pre-Modern Thinking

TRUTH

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Modern Thinking

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SLIDE 14 Rene Descartes - 1596 - 1650 I think, therefore I am
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SLIDE 15 “It means buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, ‘cause Kansas is going bye-bye.”
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Post - Modern Thinking

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SLIDE 17 Jacques Derrida - 1930-1994 There is nothing outside the text - Its words all the way down Deconstructionism
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SLIDE 18 Michel Foucault - 1926 - 1984 Power is Knowledge
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SLIDE 19 Jean-Francois Lyotard- 1924 - 1998 The end of the Meta Narrative
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Post Truth Thinking

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Post Truth Thinking

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Post Truth Thinking

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SLIDE 24 Pre-modern “I call them the way they are”
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SLIDE 25 Pre-modern “I call them the way they are” Modern “I call them the way I see them”
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SLIDE 26 Pre-modern “I call them the way they are” Modern “I call them the way I see them” Postmodern “It ain’t nothing until I call it so”
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SLIDE 27 Pre-modern “I call them the way they are” Modern “I call them the way I see them” Postmodern “It ain’t nothing until I call it so” Post-Truth “Why are you worried about balls and strikes? There’s starving children in the world!”
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SLIDE 28 Filtering the Cultural Dogma of “What is Truth?”
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Strengths & Weaknesses of each Worldview

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Strengths Pre-Modernity: Truth is MUCH larger than what we can

  • bserve, deduce, discuss and feel It does

ultimately lie “outside” of us.

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Weaknesses Pre-Modernity: If Everything I don’t understand = God, then when I start to understand things, God is significantly diminished.

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Strength Modernity: There are huge amounts of truths that we can discover, and the invitation to do so is thrilling!

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Weaknesses Modernity: If the scientific model is the way to ultimate truth, why so much disagreement?

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Stength Postmodernity: It is unbelievably arrogant to think that anyone

  • f us is “omni-perspectival”. That only

belongs to God!

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Weaknesses Postmodernity: The statement: “There is no absolute Truth” is by definition an absolute truth.

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Strength Post-Truth:

Symbolism and Emotion are very important parts

  • f who we are. Scripture is filled with images

and emotions that are meant to impact us.

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Weaknesses Post-Truth: Symbolism over Substance will lead to The End of Veracity.

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What is the Biblical idea of Truth?

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This is not a new issue

John 18:36-39 36Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” 37“You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” 38“What is truth?” retorted Pilate.
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God alone is the source of Absolute Truth

Isaiah 65:16 16Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the one true God; whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the one true God. For the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes.
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God alone is the source of Absolute Truth

1 Timothy 3:14-15 14Although I hope to come to you soon, I am writing you these instructions so that, 15if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
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THE VERACITY OF GOD. Scripture uses several words to express the veracity of God… This already points to the fact that it includes several ideas, such as truth, truthfulness, and
  • faithfulness. When God is called the truth, this is to be first of
understood in its most comprehensive sense. He is the truth all in a metaphysical sense, that is, in Him the idea of the Godhead is perfectly realized; He is all that He as God should be, and as such is distinguished from all so-called gods, which are called vanity and lies, Ps. 96:5; 97:7; 115:4–8; Isa. 44:9, 10.
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He is also the truth in an ethical sense, and as such reveals Himself as He really is, so that His revelation is absolutely reliable, Num. 23:19; Rom. 3:4; Heb. 6:18. Finally, He is also the truth in a logical sense, and in virtue of this He knows things as they really are, and has so constituted the mind of man that the latter can know, not merely the appearance, but also the reality, of things. Thus the truth of God is the foundation of all knowledge…
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In view of the preceding we may define the veracity or truth
  • f God as: that perfection of His Being by virtue of which He fully
answers to the idea of the Godhead, is perfectly reliable in His revelation, and sees things as they really are… There is still another aspect of this divine perfection, and one that is always regarded as
  • f the greatest importance. It is generally called
His faithfulness, in virtue of which He is ever mindful of His covenant and fulfills all the promises which He has made to His people.
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This faithfulness of God is of the utmost practical significance to the people of God. It is the ground of their confidence, the foundation of their hope, and the cause of their rejoicing. It saves them from the despair to which their own unfaithfulness might easily lead, gives them courage to carry on in spite of their failures, and fills their hearts with joyful anticipations, even when they are deeply conscious of the fact that they have forfeited all the blessings of God. Num. 23:19; Deut. 7:9; Ps. 89:33; Isa. 49:7; 1 Cor. 1:9; 2 Tim. 2:13; Heb. 6:17, 18; 10:23. ~ L. Berkhof, Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans publishing co., 1938), 69–70.
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SLIDE 50 In ourselves, we will never have Absolute Knowledge
  • f Absolute Truth. However, we do have some
Knowledge of Absolute Truth. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
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  • f Absolute Truth. However, we do have some
Knowledge of Absolute Truth. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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Absolute Truth Our knowledge (over a lifetime)
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Evidence (Facts) are not in opposition to Faith

John 14:1-11 1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
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Evidence (Facts) are not in opposition to Faith

John 14:1-11 6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” 8Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
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Evidence (Facts) are not in opposition to Faith

John 14:1-11 9Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.
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We have enough evidence for us to be responsible to believe

Romans 1:18-20 18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
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We have enough evidence for us to be responsible to believe

John 20:26-27 26A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 27Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
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Gospel Application:

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Gospel Application:

How have you let: Pre-Modernity Modernity Post-Modernity or Post-Truth dictate to you what is really true?
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Gospel Application:

How is God asking you to trust Him with His truth for you, in whatever circumstance you may be facing right now?