It seems as though many people define truth as being whatever they want it to be. What one person considers truth someone else will reject. By definition truth is the absence of falsehood. It is real, genuine, and unable to be set aside at someone's whim.
In John 18:38 Pilate asks Jesus "What is truth?" He asked that question because he had witnessed the religious leaders living hypocritically, confusing religious activity with spiritual maturity. What he saw them do and heard them say conflicted with compassion. They were like the cursed fig tree. Their leaves were in full bloom but they bore no fruit. They were pretending to be pious while at the same time displaying anything but piety.
In John 18:38 Pilate asks Jesus "What is truth?" He asked that question because he had witnessed the religious leaders living hypocritically, confusing religious activity with spiritual maturity. What he saw them do and heard them say conflicted with compassion. They were like the cursed fig tree. Their leaves were in full bloom but they bore no fruit. They were pretending to be pious while at the same time displaying anything but piety.
Pilate's question is as important today as it was in the first century. In the high priestly prayer of John 17 Jesus says, "Sanctify them by Your word; Your word is truth." God's word is truth because God is truth. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. What is truth? God is truth, Jesus is truth, the Holy Spirit is truth, and the Bible is truth. Questioning the veracity of that premise does not make the premise any less true. Truth is not relative. It is concrete and unchangeable. What is true today will be true tomorrow.
Every belief, whether spiritual or temporal, has a base upon which it rests. Those who hold fast to the theory of evolution rest their belief in the hypothesis of the big bang theory whereby the universe was created from a gigantic explosion of subatomic particles which put into motion the process of life, beginning with a single cell ultimately mutating into modern man. In this model of the origin of the universe, a spiritual component is superfluous. According to this theory everything that exists or ever will exist has a natural explanation. It takes great faith in man's ability to reason to hold this position because the theory generates more questions than it answers. No argument from a supernatural perspective will convince those who hold tenaciously to this theory.
Those who hold a belief in a supernatural designer and creator of the universe base such belief on the Bible. It takes great faith to hold this position as well. The Bible does not answer the question, "Is there a God?" It assumes He exists, has existed, and will always exist. No argument from human logic will dissuade the person holding the supernatural view from their belief.
Two divergent world views. If one is correct the other is wrong. They both cannot be correct. One is man-centered, the other is God-centered. One claims relativity as a base, the other claims certainty. One claims to be from man, the other claims to be from God. One promises death, survival of the fittest. One promises life, eternal bliss. Two theories! Two destinies!
What is truth? It would behoove an individual to discover the answer.
Every belief, whether spiritual or temporal, has a base upon which it rests. Those who hold fast to the theory of evolution rest their belief in the hypothesis of the big bang theory whereby the universe was created from a gigantic explosion of subatomic particles which put into motion the process of life, beginning with a single cell ultimately mutating into modern man. In this model of the origin of the universe, a spiritual component is superfluous. According to this theory everything that exists or ever will exist has a natural explanation. It takes great faith in man's ability to reason to hold this position because the theory generates more questions than it answers. No argument from a supernatural perspective will convince those who hold tenaciously to this theory.
Those who hold a belief in a supernatural designer and creator of the universe base such belief on the Bible. It takes great faith to hold this position as well. The Bible does not answer the question, "Is there a God?" It assumes He exists, has existed, and will always exist. No argument from human logic will dissuade the person holding the supernatural view from their belief.
Two divergent world views. If one is correct the other is wrong. They both cannot be correct. One is man-centered, the other is God-centered. One claims relativity as a base, the other claims certainty. One claims to be from man, the other claims to be from God. One promises death, survival of the fittest. One promises life, eternal bliss. Two theories! Two destinies!
What is truth? It would behoove an individual to discover the answer.
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