Whole truth reveals and kills half-truth. The whole truth clears away the impurities. The truth clears up misinformation. It eliminates the spin. Why is truth important? Because we live and die by truth. Soren Kierkegarrd said, “What matters is to
find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I
shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth
for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”
Jesus said, “Anybody
who is living by the truth will come to the light to make it plain that all he
has done has been done through God” (John 3:21 Ph). We need the whole truth to reveal and kill
the misinformation in our lives.
In Paul’s letter to the church at Corinth he says, But tell me this—since we preach that Christ
rose from the dead, why are some of you saying there will be no resurrection of
the dead? For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ
has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, then
all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless (1 Cor. 15:12-14 NLT).
There were those in the church at Corinth who believed there
was no resurrection of the dead, but they believed Jesus had risen from the
dead. They believed half the truth, but
half the truth distorted the whole truth.
Some believed a person’s soul died with the body. Others believed that the soul was released
from the body when it died. The ideas
that were floating around in those days about life after death, and the
different religions and philosophies of what happens to people after death –
all had an influence on Christians’ thinking.
The half-truths they believed polluted the whole truth.
People today still buy into half-truths and neglect the
whole truth. People tend to bring with
them into their newfound faith in Christ – their presuppositions about God and
the afterlife, their ideas from their past, their thoughts and inclinations
about Jesus and the Spirit, and God the Father, and Heaven and Hell, and
eternity. And their belief system is
polluted. A lot of extras are mixed in
with the truth. And they have a distorted,
unclear view of God and salvation and holy living and the necessity of
spiritual maturity and life after death.
Some people don’t believe in a resurrection from the dead or
life after death. They don’t believe in
a Heaven or Hell. They believe there is
nothing after you die. By their presupposition
of God and life after death, they don’t accept the reality of God or a
resurrection from the dead for life after death.
The issue is not lack of evidence. The issue is a “willingness” to examine the
evidence, to be open-minded enough to look at the facts and let them speak for
themselves. If anyone open-mindedly and
sincerely examines the facts of the Resurrection, they cannot refute the truth.
If they don’t believe, it’s because they’re not willing to
believe.
A half-truth can completely change everything. Half-truth clouds the whole truth. The wrong information can be deadly
information. What’s the whole truth
about the resurrection of the dead? Because
Christ rose from the dead, resurrection from the dead for His followers is true. Jesus Christ literally rose from the dead in
a glorified supernatural physical body.
Because the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the
Resurrection of Christ:
There is a resurrection of the dead, there is life after
death, there is a heaven and a hell, everything Jesus ever said is of ultimate
importance, believers who’ve already passed from this life are alive and with
the Lord in Heaven, and we have a future beyond this life.
Because of the Resurrection, life is worth living, Jesus is
worth serving, and the Good News is worth sharing.
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