Truth and unbelief

John 8:45
But because I say the truth, ye believe me not.

I fig­ure more could be said about the verse above (the words of Jesus). Jesus isn’t speak­ing these words with­out author­ity (although I say the truth, ye believe me not), as if to say them with a hint of res­ig­na­tion (I’m assert­ing one truth of many pro­posed truths, none any bet­ter than the other that we could know). Jesus is speak­ing strongly, but because I say the truth, regard­less and in the face of his opposition.

If there are those who will not hear the truth after hear­ing it plainly, how much more for those who aren’t given the truth? It is a dan­ger­ous thing, equal­iz­ing Chris­tian­ity, turn­ing into a reli­gion for moral­ists and human­ists. Truth divides and the Gospel is offen­sive. How could any Chris­t­ian imag­ine them­selves enough of an author­ity to dimin­ish the truth of the Gospel for the sake of not being ‘offensive’?

This requires future expansion…

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