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Faith, Truth and Action

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Hill, Michael (1942-). Faith, Truth and Action. Moore Theological College. 1977. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://archives.moore.edu.au/documents/detail/182144.

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Hill, M. (1977). Faith, Truth and Action. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://archives.moore.edu.au/documents/detail/182144.

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Hill, Michael (1942-). Faith, Truth and Action. Moore Theological College. 1977. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://archives.moore.edu.au/documents/detail/182144.

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  • The Nature of Faith, Lecture 2. Hill explores the place of intellect in Christian faith through the biblical concept of truth. The Hebrew view emphasizes firmness, reliability, and faithfulness to God, making truth primarily moral. The Greek view emphasizes ideas, propositions, and metaphysical speculation, making truth primarily intellectual. These perspectives are not parallel but show correspondence when applied to different contexts. In the Old Testament, truth has both intellectual and moral dimensions: it relates to reality in propositions and to faithfulness in practice. In the New Testament, John develops this further through the Logos, who knows and expresses the mind of God (John 1:18). For John, Jesus embodies truth: He is “full of truth” (1:14), is Himself “the truth” (14:6), speaks the truth from the Father (8:40), bears witness to it (18:37), and declares God’s word to be truth (17:17). Both Old Testament and Johannine thought view truth as both objective (something to be known) and subjective (something to be lived). Consequently, the Christian must understand and believe the objective truth. Such truth must permeate throughout all aspect of one's life.
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