The Lausanne Global Conversation is on the World Wide Open Network
Автор: Carver T. Yu
Дата: 29.07.2010
Category: Истина и плюрализм
This paper should be simplified for the lay people to understand easily.
I agree with the notion that truth matters and it is important to stand up for the truth e.g. when faced with difficult situation, like in the case of Abram in Egypt before Pharoah, he lied that his wife Sarah was his sister. This led to severe consequences in the house of Pharoah. Abram was questioned and made to tell the truth before his wife was restored back to him.
In contemporary history, during the apartheid struggle, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa complained against the church for playing safe by not condemning the horrible apartheid Government practices at the time e.g. the terrible discrimination of the white against the blacks by rampant unlawful killings of the citizens and many other illegal and criminal acts perpetrated at the time. With all these illegalities, the church of South Africa did not say anything.
But for the magnanimous act of the then President Mandela who initiated and established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which brought about reconciliation between the white and the blacks as we see it in South Africa today.
This underscores the importance of speaking and standing up for the truth. In John 8 v 32, Jesus said, you will know the truth and the truth wil set you free.
Ключевые слова: truth, reconciliation, black, white
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Good write up..Truth really matters. None can stand up stand up for truth who is not in vital relationship with the Truth Himself. This paper should include the fact that the indwelling Christ is the one who enables us to stand for truth in world that prefers otherwise.
Madukauwa David
Lagos, Nigeria
13.09.2010
Соединенные Штаты Америки
This paper reflects the reality of our day. The greater challenge is that students have been raised under the influene of the philosophy of plurality and now are naive to the truth about pluralism. They are challenged as they attempt to identify the source of truth. As they gradually believe that they are the center of their own universe, they seem confused when confronted with the truth of the Word of God. It is important that they understand truth and the fact that it involves morality. This is what distinquishes man from all other creation. Man is created in the image and likeness of God and has a responsibility to represent God in the earth.
02.08.2010
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