Friday, June 28, 2013
521. What is one’s duty toward the truth? (part 1)
(Comp 521) Every person is called to sincerity and truthfulness in acting and
speaking. Everyone has the duty to seek the truth, to adhere to it and to order
one’s whole life in accordance with its demands. In Jesus Christ the whole of
God’s truth has been made manifest. He is “the truth”. Those who follow him
live in the Spirit of truth and guard against duplicity, dissimulation, and
hypocrisy.
“In brief”
(CCC 2504) "You shall
not bear false witness against your neighbor" (Ex 20:16). Christ's
disciples have "put on the new man, created after the likeness of God in
true righteousness and holiness" (Eph 4:24).
To deepen and
explain
(CCC 2464) The eighth commandment forbids misrepresenting
the truth in our relations with others. This moral prescription flows from the
vocation of the holy people to bear witness to their God who is the truth and
wills the truth. Offenses against the truth express by word or deed a refusal
to commit oneself to moral uprightness: they are fundamental infidelities to
God and, in this sense, they undermine the foundations of the covenant. (CCC 2465)
The Old Testament attests that God is the
source of all truth. His Word is truth. His Law is truth. His
"faithfulness endures to all generations" (Ps 119:90; Cf. Prov 8:7; 2
Sam 7:28; Ps 119:142; Lk 1:50). Since God is "true," the members of
his people are called to live in the truth (Rom 3:4; cf. Ps 119:30).
Reflection
(CCC 2466) In Jesus Christ, the whole of God's truth has
been made manifest. "Full of grace and truth," he came as the
"light of the world," he is the
Truth (Jn 1:14; 8:12; cf. 14:6). "Whoever believes in me may not
remain in darkness" (Jn 12:46). The disciple of Jesus continues in his
word so as to know "the truth [that] will make you free" and that
sanctifies (Jn 8:32; cf. 17:17). To follow Jesus is to live in "the Spirit
of truth," whom the Father sends in his name and who leads "into all
the truth" (Jn 16:13). To his disciples Jesus teaches the unconditional
love of truth: "Let what you say be simply 'Yes or No.'" (Mt 5:37). [IT CONTINUES]
(The question: What is one’s duty toward
the truth?
continues)
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