What is Truth?

We are too much like Pilate. We are always asking, “What is truth?” and then crucifying the truth that stands before our eyes.

Thomas Merton

Having spent much of the day grappling with the doctrine of sin, atonement and the meaning of Christ's death on the cross,I took a well-earned break and found the above quote on my Facebook page!

I've never really seen truth as being something which is fixed - the truth that stands before our eyes is shaped by our own situation and ideologies. The truth is only as fixed as the very moment in which it exists.

So is it right or wrong to crucify that truth which stands before our eyes? Is it possible that we are called to crucify that truth in order that new truth may be raised from it. Perhaps the truth we see now is not truth at all, but only a shadow of it...

'For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.' 1 Corinthians 13:12