REALITY

This word "truth" that Pilate asks Jesus about - it is alethea in the Greek. The word shows up 109 times in the New Testament. It's a pretty important concept!

With "What is Truth?", Pilate gives voice to a central question of Scripture ... and human existence.

Jesus answers, "I am the Truth."

When I looked up alethea in Strong's Concordance, it says, "In ancient Greek culture, alḗtheia was synonymous for "reality" as the opposite of illusion, i.e. fact."

Thinking of Jesus saying "I am Reality" hits a little differently, doesn't it?

Is that because we tend to think of Christian faith as merely a set of propositional statements that we give mental assent to? In other words, we use "true" in this way:

God is Triune in nature? True.

Jesus was sinless? True.

Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried? On the third day He rose from the dead? True, True, True, and True.

So these things end up being a simple binaries in our minds. If something is not true, it is false. If something is true, it is not false. And that's easy to give mental assent to. 

But to step back and say Jesus is REALITY? 

This seems broader and deeper somehow. 

I need to chew on this more...