you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free?

Question

what are examples of that?

in history, in your life, or just in general.

Answer 1

I have never been all that fond of this old cliche because it doesn't always hold true. In the real world even a lie can sometimes set someone free. And sometimes even when you know the truth it doesn't always set you free.

I would rather this oft quoted old adage read 'You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you in the right direction.'

Truth can not in itself set you free. Only you can set yourself free. But having the facts and knowledge that acquired truth implies will go a long way towards letting you free yourself from whatever is holding you back.

Answer 2

Human beings see things from our own point of view. When that view is changed, many things come into clearer focus.
I personally learned thru therapy, that I am much more immaginative and resourceful than I ever thought I was.
I couldn't understand it as a child but can comprehend the truth as an adult.

Answer 3

I believe it is intended to mean that you should always speak the truth. Being truthfull while may not bring immediate rewards and may even at times cost you in the short run, will always be beneficial in the long run. How? well because then people will always have trust in you and your reputation is the most valuable asset you own. Be true to thineself.

Also many christians mistake this to mean to ask god for the truth, but in fact it does not mean that at all in the old testament when god said it he meant to always be honest and you will be greatly rewarded.

When Martin Luther King Jr. said it, he meant that if everyone knew the truth it would set them free. "All men are created equal" from the constitution of the US. the truth being that black men are men as well.

Another saying that derived from the meaning of this one is "honesty is always the best policy".

Answer 4

The truth is out there.All you have to do is find it.Being truthful is easier than trying to live a lye.Admitting the truth does set you free ,Mentally.

Answer 5

An example, the Christ had explained that death, in itself, is not to be feared (avoided, yes!) He illustrated this, recorded in John 5: 28, 29. Here he compares death with sleep. "I am going there to awaken him (Lazarus)." I, for one, am set free from this fear in knowing this truth. I'm further set free when I learn that this is corroberated in the Hebrew scriptures as well (Ezekl. 18: 4; Eccl. 3: 19; 9: 5,10; Ps. 146: 4). I'm further set free in understanding that now I no longer need ponder how the resurrection works. Since it is yet future, there are none already in heaven. Returning to the earth to be resurrected doesn't make sense. The dead are simply "sleeping", awaiting their resurrection to life, unending. THAT IS when they recieve their reward ofr being faithful.

Answer 6

This quote is from the bible and was meant to let us believe that at the time of the Lord Jesus life.. people did not believe Him to be the Son of God. He was called a liar and a cheat.
He was called wicked by the Holy Men of the world at that time.
He was not treated to huge dinners at His friends homes most of the time.. it was not festival time all the time.
He was treated like we would treat someone who came into our lives telling us all that we had been taught to do and be for God.. was not so.. that all God's priests .. who all of their lives were given the worship that was rightfully God's... were just despicable.. evil.. and not of God.
He told them that they shall know the truth of the new way of offering a sacrifice to God for the absolution of sins..
That this new truth was not a burden to have to carry all of ones life.. that the truth would set them free from the chains of evil that man has placed on man. the rituals.. the rules of Moses..
Jesus told them He was the truth , the light and the way.. He would set them free .. free from the chains of hell.. if only they would believe Him.

Answer 7

In deed it will. People are afraid of the truth and death. Once knowing the peace that comes in death, no longer is that persons soil a captive. Their soil becomes free and and they live life as a free sprite. I was pronounced dead by three Doctors while I was talking to them, I heard a voice say," Not yet". I have lived free ever since. I call it coming to terms with ones maker. .

Answer 8

1984 by Orwell. A novel that bases itself on a fictional totalitarian government that manages to hold its reigns of power through the elimination of the real truth; by changing statistics, tampering with the news, relaying false moral boosts and holding its people in the dark altogether. That really proves the proverbial statement true the other way around. If we don't know what's going on, we don't set ourselves free.

I really believe that. Today's day and age, we not only know the facts, we know all variations of theories of things that are not known to man yet. Communication keeps no information from us. It is the key to democracy.

Answer 9

I grew up with a seething hatred of Russians. Daisaku Ikeda had dialogs with Russians that showed they also had some of the same yearnings I did. That ended the seething hatred. Now there is just suspicion.

Answer 10

This this is famous quote from the Bible and I think that to get a better understanding we must go straight to the source. In this passage, Christ was trying to explain our captivity to sin to the descendants of Abraham. He tells them that, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Jesus also says, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to Father except through me." He replies to them, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin." The bible says that, "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." It also says, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." The Bible verse that is known by most people, even "non-believers," is John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, That whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

So, what does the quote me to me. It means that I was born a sinner, came before the Lord as a sinner and through my belief and profession in his son, Jesus Christ (who shed his blood on Calvary to cover my sins) I am no longer bound by sin but have been set free.