Koan #3: Only Christ as Certain Truth

Man, both Believer and Unbeliever alike, often intone that Man most important quest is his quest for truth; that knowing what is true is indeed of the utmost and critical importance. Yet it is a wonder—though many may be shocked by the forthcoming idea—whether truth can actually be known without Jesus Christ. For if Jesus Christ is the truth, as He claims to be, and this Living Truth told Man that Man could know Him, than Man can indeed know the totality of truth, as Man can know Christ, the full embodiment of truth. Thus, the truth is something that Christianity can offers in full. By contrast, it is a question if any other views can achieve this knowledge of full truth. The practitioners of the Eastern faiths, for example, who hold that the world is but an illusion, can never be truly sure that they have overcome this illusion, nor that their perceived overcoming of this worldly illusion is not simply a further illusion within the illusion. Thus their grasp for truth may be but a constant illusion. Those of Islam, as another example, with a God whose omnipotence surpasses all other traits, can never be sure of the truth, for their God can change that truth at will and whim. And finally, those holding to unbelief, who do not except or believe in Christ as Divine Lord and thus as truth, or in God at all, are left by their worldview not with truth in a full sense, but only with what they believe they perceive as truth. For such, not only does their exist no certainty of truth, but there does not even exist a possibility of certainty of truth, for all things are then simply perceived, reasoned and understood by faulty, frail and easily deceived—both by themselves and others—human beings, which arguably leaves a certainty of truth without Christ beyond reach.