{Categories of Truth}[1st August 1989]

[Redbook6:179][19890801:1706]{Categories of Truth}[1st August 1989]

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God is the God of Truth: is the one and only pure and absolute Truth. In searching for God, therefore, we must search for the truth; and if we allow the truth to be covered by lies or other misinformation, if we adhere to untruths, knowingly or unknowingly,* to that extent we increase our separation from God: we deviate from god, allow God to be covered, adhere to false gods, or idols. We must therefore use every** means at our disposal truthfully to discover the truth.

Nevertheless there are with us different categories of truth, and each may be analysed by different tools. The Virgin Birth, for example, is a truth (or not) of History and of Science, an external truth; *** the Resurrection of Christ may be such a truth or may with equal validity be a truth of perception and psychology, a truth of inner perception; and the teachings of Christ are truths in the realm of ideas. And any historical truth may also (or otherwise) constitute a symbol, as a mythological truth.

But the categories must not be confused: we do need to know into which category or categories of truth any truth falls.

*{Wow!}

**[? – Within reason & ethics, obviously]

***[cf [Redbook6:98-99)][19890219:1218f]{Jesus}[19th February 1989];

[Redbook6:135][19890531:2218c]{The Resurrection of Christ}[31st May 1989]]

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