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Defend Your Faith

• Lesson 8
• Is Truth Knowable?

Presented by Chris Reeves Park Road church of
Christ Gospel Meeting April 19, 2013
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• But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be
  ready always to give an answer to every man that
  asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you
  with meekness and fear 1 Peter 315

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Truth Is Knowable

• Ready to give an answer (1 Peter 315)
• The importance of this question (John 1838)
• Four important questions concerning truth
• Does truth exist?
• What is truth?
• What is true?
• What is important truth?

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The Post-Modern Crisis of Truth

• What is a post-modern world?
• What is post-modernism?
• What are the catchwords and lingo of
  postmodernism?
• What brought about postmodernism?
• What effect did postmodernism have on religion?

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Presenting Your Case For Truth

• Truth is knowable
• Truth is what corresponds to reality what is
  real and factual, what actually exists (Genesis
  4211-20 Deuteronomy 1312-14 Matthew 2673)

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Answering Objections

• Objection 1 There is no absolute, objective,
  knowable truth.
• If there is no absolute truth then the statement,
  there is no absolute truth, is itself not
  absolutely true.
• The postmodern individual today accepts the
  theory that there is no absolute truth, but not
  the practice. He does not actually live by his
  own theory on a daily basis and therefore, does
  not really believe it. Post-moderns dont live it
  and therefore, dont really believe it.

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Answering Objections

• Objection 2 We cannot religious and moral
  truth.
• We can know
• Historical truth George Washington was our
  first president.
• Mathematical truth two plus two equals four.
• Scientific truth when you release a ball it
  falls to the ground.
• Geographical truth the direction of north,
  south, east, or west.
• Etc., etc., etc.

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Defend Your Faith

• Does truth exist? Yes, truth exists in all areas
  of our life, including morality and religion.
• What is truth? Truth is that which corresponds to
  reality what actually exists.
• What is true? Something is true when we
  personally experience it, when it is reliably
  reported to us, or both.
• What is important truth? Truth that pertains to
  our eternal destiny.

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Defend Your Faith

• The truth of the new birth is a must You
  must be born anew (John 35-7)
• The truth of worship is a must They that
  worship him must worship in spirit and truth
  (John 424).
• The truth of obedient faith in Jesus is a must
  What must we do? (John 628-29).

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Defend Your Faith

• The truth of salvation from sin is a must
  What must I do to be saved? (Acts 237 96
  1630).
• The truth of obedient faith in God is a must
  For he that comes to God must believe that he
  is (Hebrews 116).

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Defend Your Faith

• Yes, truth is knowable and there is nothing as
  good as the truth. There is no substitute for
  truth!
• Do you have the will to believe today (John 717)?

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• Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is
  not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will
  do his will, he shall know of the doctrine,
  whether it be of God, or whether I speak of
  myself John 716-17