Truth HQ by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

T R U T H H Q

God I’ve been advancing thus far. What of faith? What of revelation? You may simply accept, as an act of faith that, despite appearances, God has made things so that they work out perfectly, even although we cannot explain exactly how or why. Fair enough.

I suppose my preference is to hold the paradox (and many other paradoxes) before us at all times. There’s a lot that we do not know and only a few things that we do know. This is our existential position. Therefore, how should we live? Perhaps religious people – perhaps almost all people – prefer answers of some sort. Perhaps they do not want their beliefs constantly challenged. But actually, if you take religion’s extra paths to truth – scriptures and revelation – then in a way you arrive back at the same place.

Here’s what I mean.

Say you read a Bible passage. It is obscure, but you feel in your heart that God has a personal message for you within the text. God makes it very clear to you what that message is. Now, I’d argue, you face a similar situation to everyone else on Earth. Given what I know, what should I do? So what are you going to do with the knowledge God has given you? This is not to disparage those of religious faith. It is just to point out that life is not necessarily made any simpler by faith – in fact faith may make things a whole lot more complicated.

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There is a flicker in woolly hat girl’s smile, like a cloud briefly passing in front of the sun. ‘Have you always been this way, or did it

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