Saturday, September 11, 2010

"Who's telling us the truth?"

We live in a time when social customs and political expediency have come to demand that people communicate and express themselves by telling each other convenient lies, rather than risk saying something that someone else might take offensively, or cause them to feel uneasy in their convictions or to start worrying that the truth of their values and beliefs is in dispute.

We're told we must speak and write "correctly" because there is no absolute truth, since what's true for you may not always be true for me. But if that's true for you, then it may not always be true for me. Which makes that statement a lie.

We're told that all religions are the same and therefore all faiths are equal, because there is no absolute truth, not about anything. So on any question involving morals or values there is no right or wrong, because the answer is always, "It depends."

But is "It depends" absolutely true? How can it be, if there are no absolute truths?

People will eagerly deny that absolute truth exists, because absolute truth condemns their personal beliefs and their values, their individual preferences, their lifestyle choices and their selfishness, their idolatry and all their wickedness ... and their hatred of the truth, too.

Does every sin start with a lie? I'm starting to think that's true. No wonder current times and "correctness" want nothing to do with the truth, because all Truth comes straight from the Word of God.

I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.
- Luke 18:17

But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.
- John 3:21

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
- Matthew 21:32

This is my command: Love each other.

If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
- John 15:17-19