A response to "How are we to understand Scripture?"

The following is a response to my “How are we to understand Scripture?” post:

THE VISITOR'S POST:
“Truth in itself defies essential definition. There is no way give it a formula of itself except as an aspect of an idea it appears to relates to. Truth is absolute emptiness. It sends in its vehicle only as the warior to oppose falsehood.

“What is seen as a fact is a dead event. it connects to the trickery of the devil. It is an isolated wanna-be completed creation of something wanting to seem like a permanent piece of genuine reality... actually dying flesh decaying in the fallen world.

"To be of God, we give our minds back. What we know is everything that's wrong. The content of my thought is part of the outside world... unique in its being known only to me and to God.”

MY RESPONSE:
If “truth in itself defies essential definition,” and definition is essential to discussion, then truth doesn’t exist, at least it can’t be defined and thus we can’t discuss it. But the assertion that it can’t be defined doesn’t prove Truth doesn’t exist. It just makes it a challenge to discuss.

The concept of Truth is fundamental to life. If truth doesn’t exist then the laws of nature don’t exist. (Call me when you can float a rock in midair.) If Truth doesn’t exist, God doesn’t exist either. Worse yet, none of us exist. But the last time I got out of my bathtub the water level went down, so something was taking a bath. When I pinch myself, that’s me with the pain. So, here we are, functioning in whatever this place is (“A rose by any other name. . .”). One of our challenges is to make sense of it. The other is to survive in it. (The Bible calls that survival “salvation.”)

Consider the sentence, “It [truth] sends out its vehicle only as the warior to oppose falsehood.” If falsehood exists then Truth has to exist because falsehood can't exist unless a standard of truth exists against which we can measure it.

“What we know is everything that’s wrong.” That’s accurate in the sense that world is under the influence of the devil, and he’s a prevaricator and a counterfeiter. According to the Bible, the worldly approach to things is not the best. The best way to get a handle on the world is to see it through the “eyes of God” or Scripture. Only then do things make sense; and, believe me, they do make sense. (That’s what this blog is about.) Since the Bible claims to be Truth—and the Bible exists—Truth must also exist, at least it exists objectively enough for believers to comprehend what God wants. That is, how he wants us to operate his plan for our survival.

Truth is the fulcrum on which all of life balances. If Truth doesn't actually exist, nothing else makes sense.