I have come to realise that there are parts of my identity that are true and parts that are a lie. There are ways in which I operate that are not actually part of who I really am. I am rediscovering my true identity, who I am and who I am in God. I have been on this discovery for about a year now, and just when I think ‘huh I am nearly there’ that is when I realise just how much further I have to go.
When an area is revealed to me, I deal with it through thinking, blogging, mainly talking being the extrovert that I am, praying and time. Just when one area is revealed, then another is revealed, and another and another. I end up with loads of areas which are all somehow connected. Some people have told me I need to chill a bit more. I do chill, honest! I watch Star Trek and play guitar. I am just an intense person, I am not someone who floats through life, I think about everything and generally struggle with it to (which is one of the areas I need to deal with, does everything need to be a fight).
All these areas that are being revealed to me are all embedded in one main area, which is ‘who I am’ and ‘who I am in God’. I believe that through re-discovering who I am I have to deal with issues from the past, forgive myself, seek forgiveness from God and separate the true parts and the lies (this surrounds all issues, its really hard to figure out the truth from the lies). Through doing this, I am learning so much more about myself, which in turn is leading to me discovering more about God. About who he is and who he wants me to be.
My first blog is going to be about truth, this is because of a recent conversation I had about faith. Following this conversation I started thinking about the nature of truth and whether or not it is absolute or relative.
I believe that truth is absolute because it would be a very strange concept if it was seen as changeable or dependable. I think that there are some things that are absolute truths, they are infinite and not dependent upon our perceptions or interactions with the world.
I believe as a Christian that there are truths about God that are in essence absolutely true. For example Gods existence and his nature, these are not dependent upon our knowledge or belief, they are true no matter what. Another example is morality, there are some things which are simply right or wrong. As a whole I am a very open minded person, and non-judgmental in my attitude combined with this I also believe that there are some things which are just true.
Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that we perceive the world through world pictures
such as: Science, Religion and Culture. Science is one way of interpreting the world, and Religion is another. Our own personal world pictures can be seen as relative, different for each individual and affected differently by culture, religion, science etc. I agree with Wittgenstein in so far as to say that we perceive the world through a world picture (which may relative), but I think that there are truths that there are absolute and therefore not dependant upon our perceptions of them and also not effected by our actions.
