The TRUTH is NOT ALWAYS in the MIDDLE (part 2)

Put it another way. I have a phone number that you must dial PERFECTLY. If you get ONE number wrong, you will NOT call my phone. My phone number is THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE EXPERIENCE OF CALLING ME BY TELEPHONE. No one can call me except by dialing my telephone number.

One address
One phone number

The truth about my address and my phone number is not "in the middle."

Now let's define truth and what it means for it to "be in the middle."

By "truth" I mean absolute fact or reality, that which exists whether we know it or not, like it or not, believe it or not.

Now when I say "the truth is always in the middle," I mean a belief that some have about reality or statements concerning reality. Those who say "the truth is always in the middle" or even "the truth is somewhere in the middle" or "the truth is usually in the middle" speak of balance or moderation, verses imbalance or extremism.

Take what I said about my address and phone number and apply it to what Christ said about Himself and His Father, or where His Father is.

Did Christ give a middle ground for reaching the Father, a way that we can consider "balanced;" a way that is not "extreme?"

What about "the mind of Christ" spoken of by Paul, the mindset that Paul told the Philippians to take as their own mindset?

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross! Philippians 2:5-8

Does the kind of obedience Christ gave to God sound "in the middle" or extreme?

And what about the call to discipleship given by Christ, the call to "deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me?" Christ made it clear that anyone who refused to do those three things COULD NOT be one of His followers?

Sometimes the truth is extreme. Sometimes the truth is "in the middle," meaning "moderate" or "balanced." For example, the scriptural principle given by Paul concerning equality in the body in 2 Corinthians 8:15:

"Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”