This just bears repeating: “Those insisting on one truth tend to be selling something or insisting on obedience.”
In my own search for truth, I’ve been to several churches and in each the preacher was saying that their church was the TRUE church and they alone had the truth. It was disheartening as well as disturbing that someone of the cloth was actively trying the divide-and-conquer strategy of “us” versus “them”…even between Protestant churches.
It thwarts spiritual growth of knowing God, so I’m at a loss of why someone would deliberately interfere with that growth….
Carol A. Hand
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” Andre Gide (1869 – 1951)
I remember that I began to question if there really was such a thing as the “one truth” at an early age. As a young child born of two cultures, I went to protestant Sunday school, the faith of my Anglo-American father, and catholic catechism, the religion forced on my Ojibwe mother in an Indian boarding school.
Image: Feather Symbol of Truth
I was curious and inquisitive, and a bit of a rebel even then. Each teacher had repeatedly assured us that only their religion was based on the one and only truth. When they asked us to repeat the “facts” we were supposed to memorize from the lessons of the previous week, I decided to test the “truth.” In Sunday school, I would repeat what I had memorized for…
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