Monday, February 9, 2009

Logic

Friends can certainly make you think. Two statements pertaining to the age old question of What is truth? One profers that "Truth is a pathless land." Another that "Jesus is the truth." In my own experience, I have found that the veracity of a proposition is subject to proof upon a triable set of conditions. Within the set of these two propositons then there must be some reasonable logical intersection. In the absence of a mutual set, it is up to the individual to take their "leap of faith". First, let's explore for potential logic. In mathematical logic =existence is a quantifier, the "existential quantifier", symbolized by ∃, a backwards capital E. We must first agree that we exist.

To symbolize "four leaf clovers exist," mathematicians would first define predicates, P(x) = "x is a clover" and Q(x) = "x has four leaves", and then form the well-formed formula (∃x)(P(x) and Q(x)). The existential quantifier for truth would be the union of the sets P(x) "Jesus is truth" and Q(x) truth is a pathless journey (∃x)(P(x) and Q(x).

The path is not one that we can know of ourselves but does that contradict that Jesus may have found and provided a pathway for us? Truth is - the bearer of a concept lends to its meaningfulness. For Jesus to advocate that : "I am the way, the truth and the life " does not negate that apart from a guide - we may be confused and lost and the logical concession is that another may be our key to a life of hope, peace, love and truth. For me, that person is Jesus.

Jesus does provide a logical response to the truth inquiry.