Postmodernism looks at the arrogance of modernism and says, “Impossible! The truth about reality is forever hidden from us. All we can do is tell stories.” There are no meta-narratives in postmodernism, and the most charismatic communicator determines truth.
Christians realize that they possess the truth; therefore, they communicate. The existence of truth provides a motivation to communicate. Acts 4:20: “…for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”
The one is the inversion of the other.
Postmodernism says, “We can communicate, therefore we determine truth.”
Christianity says, “We know the truth, therefore we communicate.”Interesting, no?
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That's an excellent point, although I'm not altogether sure that the Bible makes a distinction between communication and the truth, or at least story and the truth. The only way we know the truth is through its having communicated itself. Truth and communication are really the same thing: the Word of God.
-- John Ahern
I understand this in the sense that Jesus is the Truth and when we know this Person, we know the truth and, yes, it is something that we communicate to others. Jesus is neither Modern nor Post-Modern: he is eternal. Your last commentator calls it the Word of God,Truth and Communication. Jesus is the Word of God who comunicates himself through love. I suppose in that sense, we don't communicate the Truth, we just make possible awareness that Tuth is there in Jesus.
Very interesting.
SDG Forever,
Zach Ivins
www.art-4-the-heart-artists.blogspot.com
P.S. What happened to Krenko?
yes, yes, yes - I have thought along those lines just recently :-)
We were talking (my dad and I) about truth and how many people say "I believe it therefore it is true" whereas I always want my beliefs to hang on whether something is true or not.
It's not true because I believe it, I believe it BECAUSE it's true.
But I love how you applied it to communication - it made me smile and think :-D (which is good).
Thanks for sharing this information and hope to read more from you.
I understand this in the sense that Jesus is the Truth and when we know this Person, we know the truth and, yes, it is something that we communicate to others. Jesus is neither Modern nor Post-Modern: he is eternal.
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