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Abstract:
What happened to the "M" in Southern Methodist University? At least once or twice each semester someone asks me this question. Sometimes it's a letter from a person in the Dallas community, occasionally someone who finds it incredulous that SMU requires neither chapel attendance nor courses in religious studies for graduation....
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mark anderson
posted 9/21/07 @ 9:39 AM CST
Truth is exclusive. Jesus replied, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." [John 14:5-6]
Truth is required. "And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." [Acts 4:12]
Truth is not for everyone. Jesus replied ... "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day." [John 6:44]
But it is for all who come. "Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away." [John 6:37]
Our motto is taken from the words of Jesus [John 8:32]: Veritas Liberabit Vos - the truth will make you free. The freedom He promised was not academic freedom, political freedom, or any other freedom to. He promised to those who would follow Him freedom from the penalty, power, and ultimately, the presence of sin. There is no freedom more precious to humankind than the one Jesus paid for with His blood.
There is only one truth. The definite article, as in 'The Truth', or perhaps a superlative, as in 'Glorious', but otherwise truth needs no adjectives. Pluriform truth is a lie.