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    What Is Truth?
    What Is Truth?
    What Is Truth?
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    What Is Truth?

    By Pastor Ric

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    One day a man in history asked a very important question. What is Truth? In our present age where speaking the truth in world Governments has become almost non existant, we are witnessing the emergence of a new artform, that of telling lies packaged and presented as promises. So why do Governments and Politicians Believe That 'manipulating the truth is beneficial?

    This artform has grown to become, deception, misdirection, fact-bending, half-truths, and downright lies, Is it because the challenge to win the hearts and minds of voters, is so compelling that they believe that the only way they can win is to not tell the Truth?

    So, is it that Politicians lie when they believe that dishonesty is the best policy for getting elected. Or is there a deeper meaning, is it that Government leaders and Politicians don't know what truth is?

    In this ebook, we examine the source of Truth and lies to find out where they came from

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    PublisherPastor Ric
    Release dateNov 5, 2021
    ISBN9781005416799
    What Is Truth?
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    Pastor Ric

    Having Pastored a mainline Christian Church for many years, I am now producing Mobile apps, ebooks and paperback books on many Christian subjects, you can download them from https://noprisoners.life/

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      What Is Truth? - Pastor Ric

      Table of Contents

      Throughout the book, please click this icon,  to view pop up notes for the paragraph.

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      Chapter 1 - What is Truth?

      Chapter 2 - Two Fathers

      Chapter 3 - The Father of lies and half-truths in him is darkness and no light.

      Chapter 4 - Jesus Mission on earth.

      Receiving Salvation

      Receiving the Holy Spirit

      Appendix 1 - God's Plan of Salvation

      Chapter 1 - What is Truth?

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      ne day a man in history asked a very important question. What is Truth? In our present age where speaking the truth in world Governments has become almost non existant, we are witnessing the emergence of a new artform, that of telling lies packaged and presented as promises. So why do Governments and Politicians Believe That 'manipulating the truth is beneficial? 

      This artform has grown to become, deception, misdirection, fact-bending, half-truths, and downright lies, Is it because the challenge to win the hearts and minds of voters, is so compelling that they believe that the only way they can win is to not tell the Truth?

      So, is it that Politicians lie when they believe that dishonesty is the best policy for getting elected. Or is there a deeper meaning, is it that Government leaders and Politicians don’t know what truth is?

      Perhaps the most famous person to have asked this question was Pontius Pilate, Latin in full Marcus Pontius Pilatus, (died after 36 CE), a Roman prefect (governor) of Judaea (26–36 CE) under the emperor Tiberius. He is best known for being the official who presided over the trial of Jesus and later ordered his crucifixion. Pilate was appointed prefect of Judaea and he stirred up hatred with the Jewish community in Roman-occupied Palestine, by insulting their religious tradition, when he hung worship images of the emperor Tiberius, throughout Jerusalem and had coins bearing pagan religious symbols minted. Later he was exposed to even sharper criticism from certain Jews, who may have capitalized on his vulnerability to obtain a legal death sentence on Jesus  . 

      Pilate in the New Testament.

      The Samaritans reported Pilate to Vitellius, legate of Syria, after he attacked them on Mount Gerizim (36 CE). He was then ordered back to Rome to stand trial for cruelty and oppression, particularly on the charge that he had executed men without proper trial. According to Eusebius of Caesarea’s Ecclesiastical History.

      Pilate killed himself on orders from the emperor Caligula. Pilate in the New Testament

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      Both Josephus, a historian and eyewitness to Christianity, who lived from 37 A.D. to about 100 A.D and Cornelius Tacitus, a well-known first century Roman historian, mention Pilate's involvement in the crucifixion of Jesus. 

      Tacitus reports, Christus, from whom the name had its origin [Christianity], suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus. and Josephus wrote, Pilate had condemned him [Jesus] to a cross.. 

      Josephus tells us that in order to abolish Jewish laws, and with the intent of diminishing privileges Jews had hitherto enjoyed, Pilate ordered his troops to encamp in Jerusalem and sent them into the city with images of the emperor attached to their ensigns. When Jewish representatives demonstrated in Caesarea, Pilate’s city of residence.

      He threatened them with death unless they desisted, but, when they showed their readiness to die, he ordered the images removed. Josephus states his inferential judgement that Pilate was deeply affected with their firm resolution, suggesting his own strength of character.

      The New Testament suggests that Pilate had a weak, indecisive and hesitating: personality. He tried to pacify the Jewish mob at Jesus trial, by offering to release Barabbas a well known insurrectionist, instead of Jesus on the feast day?    Pilate weakly capitulates. His wife sends him word of a revelatory dream she has had about Jesus and urges him to have nothing to do with that innocent man 

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