Some religious groups teach that finding the truth is all about reading the scriptures. Not so simple. No translation of scripture is 100% reliable. Nor is any scripture we have today a perfect copy of what the original writer(s) wrote. God overcomes this. We call it light. God persuades a person into believing in the veracity, and veritableness, of honesty, such that they permanently hate falsehood and dishonesty and become honest and truthful. Then God teaches that person truth and teaches them to speak it. He did this through Jesus Christ who was perfected in honesty such that no lie came from Jesus. Jesus knew God’s truth and bore testimony to it. Jesus converted apostles to this and sent them. Jesus still shows Himself as the truth to people and sends them as lights into the world. Scriptures help as a reference and learning and teaching aid, but light is something God creates by taking humans and making them light for everyone to see and live by.
