Will I stand up? Will you stand up? Will we stand up? - WWG1WGA!!!
In truth, with truth, for truth?
https://faithmag.com/truth-whole-truth-and-nothing-truth
After all, it was Pontius Pilate who stated: “Truth, what is truth?” and then proceeded to have Jesus crucified.
The standard oath administered in court trials in our country has always been: “Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?” The troubling question we face these days is this: Is that oath taken seriously and does it mean anything anymore? It appears now that it is taken seriously only after one is caught telling a deliberate lie. Only then is it consequential.
So what can we do? The answer is to always speak the truth, the whole truth, plainly and as best we know it. As it was with the disciples, people who know you, a follower of Jesus in his way, truth and life, should always know that you are a person of integrity – one who speaks nothing but the truth.
What is Truth?
https://www.simplybible.com/f75c-pques-pilates-question-what-is-truth.htm
When Pilate heard Jesus speak of “truth”, he asked, “What is truth?” It wasn't an enquiry. He didn't wait for an answer. He said it to justify himself.
He went out to the mob, pronounced Jesus innocent, then had him flogged and handed over for crucifixion.
Pilate apparently went along with the idea that truth is relative. For him it was “truth” that Jesus was innocent, but for the Jews it was “truth” that Jesus was guilty. So Pilate in all “fairness” washed his hands and let the Jews follow their truth.
"I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth; everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice" (John 18:37).
Jesus believed in absolute truth and made it the fundament of life. He prayed to his Father for his disciples: "Make them holy in the truth; your word is truth" (John 17:17).
He also said, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32).
"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; nobody comes to the Father unless through me" (John 14:6).
**The mob saw Jesus as worthy of crucifixion, and the mob’s truth held sway. Of course, it wasn't really truth at all.
Yet today the will and beliefs of the majority, or the noisy minority, seem to be regarded as truth. Issues such as abortion and euthanasia; homosexuality; and war; are decided by “community standards”. This means the view of the majority holds sway, or even of the minority when it has the clout. Other than this voice, no outside or higher authority is recognised.
The “truth” is predominant public opinion. People get so used to it that God is ignored as irrelevant or non-existent.
A Society of emasculated liars is easy to control!
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.
To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.
One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
Theodore Dalrymple, “Our Culture, What’s Left Of It”
So when do you stand up for truth? Especially? - In a sworn testimony!
Sworn testimony is evidence given by a witness who has made a commitment to tell the truth. If the witness is later found to have lied whilst bound by the commitment, they can often be charged with the crime of perjury. The types of commitment can include oaths, affirmations and promises which are explained in more detail below. The exact wording of the commitments vary from country to country.
The biggest liars rigged an election, stole a country, murdered many lives and futures!
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Amen and AMEN!!!
AMEN!!!
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Thomas Sowell