How do you know something is true?

I’m hearing the question at a different level, perhaps.

What if the questions isn’t “What sources do you use to validate or correct your perception of a given proposition or claim?”

What if the question is, “What is there that, in the face of whatever sources I may consult, can reliably give me some assurance when I’ve gotten closer or further from truth?”

So, perhaps the question is less “How do I verify or correct something based on X criteria” (i.e., how do I know it in my head, as it were) and more “How do I ‘know that I know”” or even “How do I get to the place where something ‘feels’ right?” (i.e., involving the body, or the “heart” as well as the brain/mind).

It seems to me, at least, that Scripture may not form the heart well or at all among people who have no practice with Scripture doing so through worship and other means. And so the capacity for folks to address “what is truth” ends up being far more formed by whatever other formation they have actually received through other cultural practices that may be far better honed in them– both cognitively, and, perhaps especially, affectively.

I’ll be interested in seeing where you go with all of this…

Peace,

Taylor Burton-Edwards