Who Else?

From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. Then Jesus said to the twelve, Do you also want to go away? But Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 

John 6:66-68 

Peter articulates a critical rhetorical question when he asks, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go?’ Christ is the unique Speaker of truth. What He declares is fundamentally different at its’ foundation from other speakers. Peter understood this sufficiently to exclude all other sources by saying, ‘to whom shall we go?’ Humanity has expended its’ time, effort, and energy in the pursuit of truth. Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Hume, Sartre, and Rand are examples of a vast number of pursuers of truth. For the most part, they have failed. The religionists of Christ’s day and many others before or since have labored to articulate their version of truth. They have said some things that are true and many things that are false. At the end of it Christ still stands above all. Their philosophies ultimately fail to deliver the answers to eternal questions. Many of the religious speculations are wide of the mark. When Peter asked, ‘to whom shall we go?’ he was excluding all other erstwhile fountains of truth in contrast to Christ. No one else delivers as He does.  

Our Great God and our Savior, 
We rejoice that You are the great storehouse of truth. 
We praise You that we need  
look no further than You. 
 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning