"What Is Truth?"

Yesterday morning I woke up in a mental conversation about the term 'truth.'

I am not quite sure how that all was formulated, in my sleeping state, but it was an active wonder.  

What, and how, do folks see as truth?

And I remembered Jesus' discussion with Pilate: 

 ³⁷Pilate asked him, ‘So you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.’ ³⁸Pilate asked him, ‘What is truth?’(Jn. 18)

Jesus didn't answer Pilate's question.

However, Jesus does make some clear statements concerning the definition of the term: 

31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, ‘If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; ³²and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.’ (Jn.8)

 ⁶Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. (Jn.14)

So I went to my trusty Theological Dictionary and looked up the word truth.

Here is what I found: "Truth is a reality that is firm, solid, binding, authentic, divine reality, revelation." (p. 37)

My mind thought:  Jesus is the revelation of truth.

Jesus is a living Epiphany -- manifestation -- of all that is truth.

Now that makes total sense to my small little mind.

This amazing truth is totally unprovable.

                        And most relevant to the human ego and intellect.

In the beginning was the Word, 

and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

²He was in the beginning with God. 

³All things came into being through him, 

and without him not one thing came into being. 

What has come into being ⁴in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 

⁵The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. (Jn 1)

Jesus is the light in the darkness of our world.  

His light displays the divine truth we all search for.

That my friends is the only truth that truly makes any sense in this life we experience everyday.