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    Christ is the truth in the sense that to be the truth is the only
    true explanation of it; the only true way of acquiring it. Truth is
    not a sum of statements, not a definition, not a system of concepts,
    but a life. Truth is not a property of thought that guarantees
    validity to thinking. No, truth in its most essential character
    is the reduplication of truth within yourself, within me, within
    him. Your life, my life, his life expresses the truth in the striving.
    Just as the truth was a life in Christ, so too, for us truth must be
    lived.

    Therefore, truth is not a matter of knowing this or that but of
    being in the truth. Despite all modern philosophy, there is an
    infinite difference here, best seen in Christ’s response to Pilate.
    Christ did not know the truth but was the truth. Not as if he did
    not know what truth is, but when one is the truth and when the
    requirement is to be in the truth, to merely “know” the truth is
    insufficient – it is an untruth. For knowing the truth is something
    that follows as a matter of course from being in the truth,
    not the other way around. Nobody knows more of the truth
    than what he is of the truth. To properly know the truth is to be
    in the truth; it is to have the truth for one’s life. This always costs
    a struggle. Any other kind of knowledge is a falsification. In
    short, the truth, if it is really there, is a being, a life. The Gospel
    says that this is eternal life, to know the only true God and the
    one whom he sent, the truth (Jn. 17:3). That is, I only know the
    truth when it becomes a life in me.

    • Soren Kierkegaard
    → 12:05 PM, Sep 18
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