What Is Truth?

Governor of Judea, the southernmost of the three traditional divisions of ancient Palestine; the other two were Galilee in the north and Samaria in the center.

a Professor of New Testament, at Phillips Theological Seminary in OK:
"Governors were the face of Rome’s empire and power in the provinces. Pilate represented Rome’s political and economic interests, defended its hierarchical societal structure, and ensured submission and order in the provinces. As governor, Pilate exercised military, political, social, judicial, and economic power for the benefit of Rome’s ruling elites."

"If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind."

has to do with taste, preferences, feelings and opinions. Subjective claim of truth is either true or false based on the whims of the person.

is outside of ourselves, having nothing to do with the self…. Nothing to do with me. An Objective claim is either true or false based on the support or objection of other known facts.

"In 1961, researchers found a two-foot by three-foot slab of rock that had been used "in the construction of a landing between flights of steps in a tier of seats reserved for guests of honor" The Latin inscription on the stone, however, proved that originally, it was not meant to be used as a building block in the theater. On the stone, the researchers found what was left of an inscription bearing the name of Pontius Pilate. The entire inscription is not legible, but concerning the name of Pilate, …it is quite unmistakable, and is of much importance as the first epigraphical documentation concerning Pontius Pilate, who governed Judea A.D. 26-36 according to commonly accepted dates". The stone is now known appropriately as "The Pilate Inscription," and documents that Pilate was the Roman official governing Judea, and even uses his more complete name of Pontius Pilate, as found in Luke 3:1."

"For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe."

"For 'who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?' But we have the mind of Christ."

"knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."

"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness," (package deal)

Josephus wrote "The Jewish War," he wrote a history of the Jewish people, and he was commander of the Galilean forces of the army that opposed Rome for two years. He gave up those forces … after 68, he becomes the major spokesperson against the war with the Romans. After the war he winds up in Rome [sponsored by] the Roman Emperor, and gets paid to write the rest of the history he didn’t finish in Palestine.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.