Read it, live it

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” Jesus the Way to the Father 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” John 14:1-6 (NIV) I had a short discussion with my son the other night about life. He finds me, in his words, arrogant, because I hold to Biblical truth instead of the ideas that he has. He said something that gave me pause, and I asked him who he stole the idea from. I told him that I expected him to be a critical thinker, to listen to people he disagrees with and to try to understand their point of view. The conversation devolved from there, to a place where he was telling me what I thought. My son refuses to read the Bible. Instead, he thinks he knows what it says because of what other people have told him. I challenge him to read it for himself so he has, at least a point of reference to what I actualliy do think. We are entitled to our own opinions. What we are not entitled to is our own facts. And when it comes to truth, Jesus clearly tells us that He IS the Truth. When you have the Truth as your truth, you have truth, and historical facts, on your side.