Truth is not a feeling
What is truth? How can we know what’s true and what’s not? Todays society has become transformed by post-modernism; which, in a nutshell is the idea that truth is subjective and based on whatever makes you happy. Truth has lost all meaning.
I’ve had conversations with some friends during Bible study where they’ve told me, “the Bible is open to interpretation. It might mean something different to you than it will to me.” I sort of just nodded along to that, because at the time I didn’t really know how to argue that. Quite frankly, that’s not how truth works. The very definition of truth is a verified and indisputable fact. There is no such thing as relative truth. It’s true or it’s not, there’s no in between. Thinking that the Bible could “mean something different to you.” Is an excuse that a lot of people use as a way of escaping the hard work and prayer that finding truth requires. In John 14:6 Jesus says; “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Is there more than one Jesus? No, there’s only one. So with sound logic we can discern that if Jesus is truth, then there is only one truth.
The culture will have you believe that truth is whatever makes you happy. whatever you identify as, that’s your truth. You can be whatever you want to be. The problem with this kind of thinking is that all authority—of any kind—is lost. There is no accountability, there is no right and wrong, and there is no absolute. Truth has become guided by sinful beings. What’s more, I’m starting to feel that this kind of thinking has invaded the church. The Bible tells us that “the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword.” This means that the word of God is our weapon. Not only for fighting our enemy, but for defending what’s true. The culture should not be influencing the church. We, as the body of Christ should be defending our faith until death. We should be prepared to die for Christ—who is truth—just as he died for us.
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”
II Timothy 4:3-5 NKJV