Devotion 40 - a measure of truth

the biblical measure of truth, as Thomas strongly affirms, has less to do with words and concepts and more to do with what we do and how we live.

knowledge is of limited value. The challenge is to translate knowledge into something valuable for people in their everyday lives. Science has in many cases made discoveries that benefit ordinary people in their everyday life. There may also be some things that science has done or contributed to that are not proud or worthy of praise.

Academic Theology has also given much that is beneficial to the church. But just like science it has accepted some assumptions and adopted many attitudes which has left it systematically disjointed from the church - the local community of faith that every work in theology should seek to serve.

One of the dangerous assumptions that both science and theology have played with is the idea that truth is something that can be KNOWN - in a person's head. i.e. that truth is conceptual.

Wisdom knows that disembodied "truth" is no truth at all. Any claim to truth is most likely pompous arrogance. Truth is lived out - embodied in a life and a lifestyle, a set of choices and attitudes made real in a person' life. There is no need to claim truth - the truth will speak quite clearly for itself!