The Advent of Easter, Part VI by Pamela Christian—Copyright © 2019
Many people have asked the question “What is truth?” In essence, it’s the very question the enemy of God beguiled the first woman to ponder. Is truth what God said to us, or is truth something else? By getting the woman to question what God said, he managed to get her to question who God is—Is God who He says He is, looking out for our good, or is He withholding from us something better? Once the enemy had the woman question God, he was then able to make a claim entirely contrary to what God said, enticing the woman to act on her thoughts, and disobey God.
The enemy uses the same tactics to this very day to deceive people away from truth and away from God.
Clearly, we live in a pluralistic society which is a diverse one, where people believe all kinds of different things to be “truth” and tolerate each other’s beliefs even when they don’t match their own. In order to have a pluralistic society, truth must be considered relative.
It’s very popular in our culture to believe truth is relative. People claim, “What you believe is true for you, but not necessarily true for everyone.” When people believe they have the ability to determine what is truth, they open the door to decide what is right and what is wrong. In other words, to claim truth is relative is to make ourselves our own god, determining not only truth, but morality.
We can’t know if we are deceived unless we know truth. If we are not clear on truth, we can easily be deceived. Let’s further consider the claim that truth is relative. Another way of making the claim is to say, “There is no such thing as absolute truth.” However, this claim relies on the law of absolutes—the claim itself is an absolute statement. You can’t have it both ways.
There are three laws of truth that must exist at the same time to be confident a matter is true: The laws are: 1) truth always lines up with reality; 2) only one thing can be true with all opposing matters false, and; 3) truth is universal (the truth is the same anywhere in the world.)
In this Season of Lent, we must examine ourselves to recognize any matter in thought or deed that are contrary to truth. Gratefully, God is rich in mercy and delights when we recognize and confess our sin. God is who He says He is and His only desire for us is entirely for our good. No one wants to live their life on the basis of lies. So, let’s be diligent about discovering truth.
It is also popular to believe all roads lead to the same God and Heaven. Is this true? We’ll explore this in the next post.
For March 16-17, 2019 read and meditate on the following Scriptures:
Genesis 3; Psalm 119:160; John 8:31-32; John 17:17; Ephesians 4:21; Titus 1:1-2
Scroll down below to access earlier posts in this series. To view the entire list of planned devotions, see the Introduction.
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