Pieces Of The Truth

Klyne Snodgrass, in his book Between Two Truths—Living with Biblical Tensions, offers a fable demonstrating how the devil can twist truth: “Once the devil was walking along with one of his cohorts. They saw a man ahead of them pick up something shiny. ‘What did he find?’ asked the cohort. ‘A piece of the truth,’ the devil replied. ‘Doesn’t it bother you that he found a piece of the truth?’ asked the cohort. ‘No,’ said the devil, ‘I will see to it that he makes a religion out of it’” (Klyne Snodgrass, Between Two Truths—Living with Biblical Tensions [Grand Rapids; Zondervan, 1990] 35). The devil is happy to share pieces of the truth, so the way to defeat him is to offer the whole truth. Equipping the belt of truth means being so rooted in the truth of Scripture that we are able to identify falsehoods that fall short.