Where has Truth Gone?
As I was browsing Myspace earlier today, I read a post from an old acquaintance talking about how people can create there own truth, and it arose some old thoughts. About a year ago I was really into this whole emergent, postmodern idea, but I eventually stopped talking about it; because I felt like I had turned it into a bigger deal than it really was.
But this post I read earlier really reminded me that there are people that have forgotten that there is really something called truth, and it is not relative. The concept which I keep hearing is: what we are exposed to and taught throughout our lives constitutes what we know as truth. This is correct, kind of. We may conceive things one way, for instance; if I was raised in a home where my older siblings, whom I thought were really smart, did drugs, drank all the time, and dropped out of school, I may come to an understanding where my conceived truth is that drinking, doing drugs, and dropping out of school will make you smart. Obviously this is not true though. The truth is that none of those things will help you become smarter.
So what I am trying to say is this. Many people will choose not to believe in God because they say he doesn’t exist in their eyes. But if he really does exist it doesn’t matter what that person thinks. Do you get my drift? One of my favorite analogies is this, if you were standing in the middle of the road and a bus was going seventy miles an hour directly towards you, and it hit you; it would kill you or severely hurt you regardless of what you believed. This is because the bus was really there, and you were really in its way.
Jesus Christ is the same way. He is either real, or fake. There is no in between. If you are a Christian who chooses not to tell your friends about your believes, you need to start now. Don’t let this lie of relativity hold you back from what is true.
May 15 2008 10:55 am | Culture and Evangelism and Jesus and Salvation
