{"id":3213,"date":"2020-12-08T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/08\/3213\/"},"modified":"2020-12-12T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T23:48:07","slug":"3213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/08\/3213\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth is a Person"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pulled this from a Rick Warren devotional that really spoke to me today. I had this revelation about a week ago regarding Jesus as The Truth, so today this just drove it home more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We know God&#8217;s Truth: Jesus Christ<\/p><p>Truth is not a principle. Truth is a person; truth is Jesus Christ.<\/p><p>One of the clearest and best-known statements by Jesus is: &#8220;I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.&#8221; (John 14:6 NLT)<\/p><p>Notice Jesus says, &#8220;I am the truth .&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t say truth is a religion, or a ritual, or a set of rules and regulations. He says &#8220;I.&#8221; Truth is a person.<\/p><p>This is what separates Jesus Christ from every other leader of every other faith. Other leaders have said, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for the truth&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m teaching the truth&#8221; or &#8220;I point to the truth&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m a prophet of truth.&#8221; Jesus comes and says, &#8220;I am the truth.&#8221;<\/p><p>A lot of people say, &#8220;I think Jesus was just a great teacher.&#8221; But he couldn&#8217;t be just that: No great teacher would claim to be God if he wasn&#8217;t. Either Jesus is conning 2.3 billion people who believe a lie, or he was nuts, or Jesus is who he said he was.<\/p><p>Everybody&#8217;s betting their life on something. I&#8217;m betting my life that Jesus is who he said he was.<\/p><cite>Rick Warren&#8217;s Daily Devotional on Youversion &#8211; Day 288<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/reading-plans\/135\/day\/288?segment=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-staging_wp_upload_id=\"image_8f58b5a8-1553-4747-b476-b74017205d9e.jpg\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"file:\/\/\/private\/var\/mobile\/Containers\/Shared\/AppGroup\/51C73B63-E336-4672-A380-FC67B9A2FDB3\/Media\/image_8f58b5a8-1553-4747-b476-b74017205d9e.jpg\">www.bible.com\/reading-plans\/135\/day\/288<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulled this from a Rick Warren devotional that really spoke to me today. I had this revelation about a week ago regarding Jesus as The Truth, so today this just drove it home more. We know God&#8217;s Truth: Jesus Christ Truth is not a principle. Truth is a person; truth is Jesus Christ. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","tag-jesus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jeremy-bishop-Gx879ThpqWQ-unsplash-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}