This blog is about rightly dividing the Truth – Separating Truth from false doctrine and half-Truth.  It is geared toward exposing error and enabling us toward a renewed mind in God’s Word.

There are a few keys to knowing the Truth.  First, we have to want to know the Truth.  Secondly, we must allow the Holy Spirit to lead us into all Truth – to renew our mind in God’s Word.  This often requires a change in our beliefs.  It is rarely easy.

It is our theological and doctrinal lens that we use to view God’s word that shapes our beliefs.  We all have them – many of them – jumbled up in our thinking.  They shape our understanding of Truth – our dogma, or opinions. They taint and limit what we see.  But, it should be the other way around.  We should be viewing our theology and doctrine through the lens of God’s word.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

We must strive to be as the Berean’s in our approach to Truth:

Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Notice that the Berean’s “received the word with all readiness of mind”.  We do that.  In fact, we do that far too often.  We like a pastor, and believe everything he says.  We like a book, and we believe everything in it.  We drink in truth with the error without “proving all things”.

But, there is a comma.  There is more.  The Berean’s “searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so”.  Now that’s the ticket.  They gladly received the word, but also tested all things to the word of God.  So should we.  It’s not what we know, but what we know that isn’t so, that gets us into trouble.

Continue reading in “Seeking Truth” for a more definitive discussion of this critical concept.