Another important fact about truth and the TA is that the TA delivers personal revelation....revelatory truth and truth assurance and does not impart facts. That is the role of Epochal Revelation and those text/fact books that we would normally find in the libraries of Dalamatia and The Garden schools...and now in the UB. The TA's concern is soul growth and truth assurance...not the facts of universe reality....which, as has been demonstrated here, are not required for the work of the TA and truth.
Which makes epochal revelation a book of fact to be read and studied and accepted literally. The two forms of revelation thereby work in harmony. Metaphor is a tool of truth presentation....the nonliteral presentation of that which is illustrative of truth. Facts are given to provide clarity and detail and reduce confusions and eliminate errors...and so does the UB claim itself in purpose and in deed!!
Truth in literature is inspired....facts are not inspired....they are facts.
101:0.3 (1104.3) Religion, the conviction-faith of the personality, can always triumph over the superficially contradictory logic of despair born in the unbelieving material mind. There really is a true and genuine inner voice, that “true light which lights every man who comes into the world.” And this spirit leading is distinct from the ethical prompting of human conscience. The feeling of religious assurance is more than an emotional feeling. The assurance of religion transcends the reason of the mind, even the logic of philosophy. Religion is faith, trust, and assurance.
101:2.4 (1106.3) There are two basic reasons for believing in a God who fosters human survival:
101:2.5 (1106.4) 1. Human experience, personal assurance, the somehow registered hope and trust initiated by the indwelling Thought Adjuster.
101:2.6 (1106.5) 2. The revelation of truth, whether by direct personal ministry of the Spirit of Truth, by the world bestowal of divine Sons, or through the revelations of the written word.
