Truth vs. Certainty

What should we pursue? Truth or Certainty? What's the difference? And how will it affect my view point?

"Truth: what is true, what is correct, what is known to be right with or without physical evidence or actual proof.

"Certainty: the ability to say with 100% accuracy, evidence, and proof that something exists."

Did you catch it too? As Christians what do we need to pursue? Truth or Certainty? Answer: Truth. We cannot produce scientific evidence that God exists, but we KNOW that God in fact does exist. This is a Truth. We cannot persure certainty with something we cannot witness, but that doesn't meant that it isn't true.

Were you there when Washington crossed the Delaware? How do you know it happened? Do we have live video? Or photos? Nope, but we do have documents, eye witness accounts, and history.

What about the bible? Documents? Check. Eye witness accounts? Check. History? You betcha!

Did you know we only have a few documents that prove Plato's existence? (I believe it was either less than a dozen, or less than a hundred.) When was the last time you doubted that Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, or Confucius were indeed real people. The number of historical documents on these people is surprisingly small -- I'm talking TINY! But what about Jesus?

Did you know that when an archeologist find a historical document, he has to believe what ever it says UNTIL it is proven false? It's the old, "innocent until proven guilty" theory. Makes sense, right?

Number of Historically Accurate Documents Referring to Jesus: well into the hundreds of thousands -- literally so many that we cannot put a number on them!