| DrRocket ( @ 2009-03-17 13:43:00 |
(Shamelessly adapted from Philosophical Fragments, written by Kierkegaard)
Christian doctrine is not meant to be adhered to in itself. It is to be believed in only as a corollary to believing in a person (person here does not mean not-God, since God is a person...or rather, three persons), Jesus.
Belief is to be directed toward the truth. Truth is, you might say, the fulfillment of belief (it is what makes gives belief the ultimate sense of fulfillment). It is rather painful to find that something you believe in fully is false.
Our belief is to be directed toward Jesus.
So, Jesus is the fulfillment, the direction of, belief.
So, truth as the correspondence between a statement (e.g., "snow is white") and reality (e.g., snow actually is white) is secondary/derived from Jesus, the Truth. After all, who creates facts by simply speaking? Both by functional definition (the fulfillment of belief) and empirical definition, truth as correspondence is derivative from Jesus.
Hendiadys indeed.