{"id":557,"date":"2013-05-07T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebcsv.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2015-05-21T05:50:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T10:50:59","slug":"the-truth-will-set-you-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebcsv.com\/pa\/the-truth-will-set-you-free\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth will set you free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rg_hi\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"truth\" src=\"http:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRrIjHJeQNHhVQ76r_rt14onFQYLCb3xuor0FCMXhVROg4VPqco\" alt=\"truth will set you free\" width=\"248\" height=\"142\" data-height=\"190\" data-width=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Freedom or bondage?<\/h4>\n<p>Jason Collins made sports history the other day when he came out of the closet announcing his gayness.\u00a0 He has been lauded in the press and even received a personal phone call from our President, Barak Obama, praising him for his personal courage to be true to himself.\u00a0 Even former president Bill Clinton praised Collins.\u00a0 Kobe Bryant, the star of the Los Angeles Lakers tweeted Collins: \u201cDon\u2019t suffocate who you are because of the ignorance of others.\u201d\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Billie jean King, a member of the international tennis hall of fame, who also came out of the closet in the 1980\u2019s had this to say: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to get rid of the shame. That&#8217;s the main thing. And Jason is going to help that. He&#8217;s going to help give people the courage to come out&#8230; I guarantee he&#8217;s going to feel much lighter, much freer. The truth does set you free, there&#8217;s no question. It doesn&#8217;t mean its easy. But it sets you free.<\/p>\n<p>Reading her statement in the paper set me to thinking.\u00a0 <i>Does<\/i> the truth set us free? Clearly Billie Jean King has heard the statement that derives from a comment that Jesus made in the New Testament in John 8, but is this what Jesus was talking about? This notion that being true to oneself will set us free?\u00a0 If so, what does it set us free to do or be? If it sets me free internally, so that I no longer feel conflicted about my hidden identity, does this still mean I am ultimately free- especially from shame?\u00a0 When society redefines normal behavior so that shame is no longer associated with a certain activity, is this living in denial of reality or freedom?\u00a0 Perhaps we should reflect on the words of Peter in the New Testament: \u201cWhile they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption\u2026\u201d (II Peter 2:19)<\/p>\n<p>Jesus made another statement about the truth in the gospels.\u00a0 In John 14 Jesus said: \u201cI AM the way, the<b> truth<\/b> and the life, no man comes to the Father but through me.\u201d Perhaps if we capitalized the <b>Truth<\/b> in John 8 it would help us understand who really sets us free.\u00a0 It is not the truth about ourselves that sets us free- It is Jesus Christ- The<b> Truth<\/b> from God who does.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"The%20truth%20will%20set%20you%20free%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom or bondage? Jason Collins made sports history the other day when he came out of the closet announcing his gayness.\u00a0 He has been lauded in the press and even received a personal phone call from our President, Barak Obama, praising him for his personal courage to be true to himself.\u00a0 Even former president Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The truth will set you free? - EBCSV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ebcsv.com\/pa\/the-truth-will-set-you-free\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The truth will set you free? - EBCSV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Freedom or bondage? 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