To be sure the truth has an authority of its own. Facts are indisputable. But facts can be used cruelly. You sure have gotten fat since the last time I saw you. It may be true, but it isn't healing or helpful, nor is it likely to inspire diet and exercise.
Facts help if they are used in service to love.
And facts about God are not so unequivocal. We were watching the new millennium dawn across the world hour by hour on New Year's Eve Day, like everybody, wondering whether Y2K or terrorists or millennial fanatics would start the new millennium with tragedy rather than triumph. We were especially concerned about the crowd that gathered in Bethlehem, and what might happen there. But it was all good. They released the doves of peace and shot fireworks after them, which I suppose was a bit confusing to the doves.