I often see on social media how there are those who debate the facts about God and they believe they’ll arrive at truth, not realizing they are holding God accountable to match their own logic. Many even have the idea that one can gather bits and pieces of doctrine that they can agree with and discard others as if putting together a personal puzzle to represent Jesus.

When you think about it, Jesus is not in part – so truth is not in part. God restored His complete, wholesome, ordered, holy knowledge (truth) to the church today to remove the lie that the truth of Christ is something that needs to be discovered. In reality, truth has always been revealed through God-appointed stewards, and Jesus assigned that role to His living apostles.

I also see those who debate the truth of Christ as I share with them, thinking they can measure what truth is if they first fit it to themselves. God does not work that way – man’s logic is not the filter to work out truth, but rather the truth of Christ is the filter that separates the flesh from faith.

The reason behind all the debating is because man is naturally distrusting and so believers that rely on that instinct of the flesh are afraid that they’ll be tricked. Satan’s promise offered at this point is that you can establish your own truth, which is a lie.

Let’s take a look at John 19:23-24 to see the symbolism God put in what happened to Jesus’ coat at His crucifixion:

John 19:23 -24
²³ Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

²⁴ They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

The Spirit highlights in verse 23 that Jesus’s coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout; which emphasizes how there are no parts to be sewn together. The thread of truth is the same thread of Jesus Christ throughout His knowledge and nothing points back to man, or is in need of man to stitch together. This wholeness is exactly the attribute of truth, nothing of Christ missing and nothing of man added.

Reviewing John 19:24 we observe here that the soldiers parted Jesus’ raiment and cast lots for His coat:

“They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.”

The parting of Jesus’ raiment symbolically speaks of how carnal minded ministers interpret the things of God and volunteer their personal insight as a piece of the truth. Each piece becomes the subject for further personal interpretation setting the stage for debating. Their journey towards the truth means they don’t have the truth. The apostles doctrine is God’s full blueprint for Christ-centered faith whereby the covenant believers build God’s house in unfeigned unity. Debating is not the same as building but rather much like gambling.

We can say that to cast lots in the game of gambling is like debating with lady luck for the win. We can relate to how results are actually hanging in the balance with the game of gambling. The reason people think that truth is the result of much debating is that they hope they can tell the difference between truth and error once facts land in their favor, meaning it can be fitted to their own image. It is the same as placing truth in the balance of something as untrustworthy as chance.

This is not how God works; God designed faith to work with Christ’s complete knowledge. The Apostles’ Doctrine is purposely designed for our faith to labor with to bring forth the fruit of understanding. That means that God opens the understanding to perceive Christ, His way, and light. His ways are higher than our ways and truth is needed for us to commune with God on His level, in His language.

There is a difference between what is true to self and the one truth of Christ. God sets this distinction to protect faith from being interpreted as what is true to self. Something can be true to ourselves but it is not the truth of Christ. To give you an even better idea of what I mean, I’ll quote from the EVA Terms Glossary under partial truths (which everyone who signs up for the IDCCST Course has access to):

A belief in partial truths is a belief in facts about Jesus that are not fitted to God’s covenant. They are facts that are true to you – but not true to God.

So it is possible to fit facts about God within the frame of our own thinking to make sense of it and to establish our own guidelines to trust, but this is making faith in our own image which directly means faith does not reflect Christ.

Satan’s counterpart to truth is what God calls false knowledge. It reflects the design of man and promises increase through marrying faith to the design of the flesh to see the image of self. This self-image is called the aspiration of man and it replaces the image of Christ.

This is why there is so much disagreement in the false religious system today because one man’s image and philosophy are set against another. Truth is the facts that are consistent with God’s character, purpose, and plan through our Lord Jesus Christ, and this distinction makes it possible for faith to be built upon Christ as the foundation and cornerstone.

Again, we see God left nothing of truth undone, so it is not up to the imagination of man to fill in any perceived gaps. Rather, truth is revealed in full by God through the steward of His house for us to receive, study and reciprocate back to God. We live in the timeframe of God’s restoration and the knowledge of truth and His stewardship is the key to unlocking our faith to communicate and reciprocate on God’s level.

When the missing link of God’s elect stewardship is set in place for the church, it becomes apparent that apostles are not just for the first-century church but for today too. God makes a connection between truth and the apostolic calling which is that the apostles instruct in doctrine (truth).

The sanctified (called and equipped) apostles of Christ preach truth in whole, not a progressive truth. The word wholesome refers to nothing of Christ missing and nothing of man added.

God ministered the word of knowledge ‘custodian’ in a recent dream. The apostles of Christ are the custodians of truth, which is a good description of a steward: a person who has responsibility for taking care of or protecting something. God placed Jesus Christ in His callings, so the callings don’t point back to the person but to Him. Jesus Christ is in the calling and God joins the calling to His apostles, which means they stand in that sanctified place of service to the Body.

God restored His apostles today to instruct in truth and oversee the building of faith. God cares for His people through all 5 of His callings to keep believers’ faith within the framework of Christ. God appoints a steward to equip His people with knowledge for faith to meet His standard. This standard is set in Christ and is what He calls righteousness, therefore the measure of truth is whether or not it perfectly reflects Christ.