Truth Is Truth, or It Is False

In today's America, it has become the norm to speak of all truth as subjective, my truth, your truth, etc. All truth, of course, except that all truth is subjective. No deviation from that can be tolerated. "I can't tolerate intolerance." But even that, as much as it is said, is not what people actually do. Tolerance is the norm for any idea to the left of one's own worldview. Intolerance is expected for any idea to the right.

Has that idea infiltrated the church? I think it has. My own governor had no tolerance for the plans of the Republican Party for its convention, regarding social distancing and the wearing of masks in response to the covid virus. But did you see the funeral for the late-Congressman John Lewis, a darling of the left? No social distancing, and not a peep of protest. Just a deafening silence.

However, the historic Christian faith, as opposed to the invented form of the political left, is built on objective truth.

We have the words of Jesus: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6). Not only did He have an unequivocal understanding of His role in salvation, but also of His nature. He is the way, the only way, and the truth. Not "a" truth, but "the" truth.

And this One who is ultimate truth said of the Bible, speaking to the Father: "Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth" (John 17:17). This One who is Himself the truth, has revealed Himself in the Bible, which bears His truth.

And how is His truth, revealed in the truth of the Bible, then carried to His people? By the Spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit: "When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth" (John 16:13).

I think that what this demonstrates is that a subjective understanding of truth is incompatible with the Christian worldview. The Bible and Jesus personally present a worldview based on explicit events, in historical time. Deviation from it is not just an alternative truth or worldview; it is a choice to disbelieve, with the eternal consequences that come with that choice.