Two recent headlines point to a growing trend in American culture: people are losing confidence that objective truth even exists.
A recent article from the George Barna, of the Barna Group, found that many Americans now believe truth is personal and self-defined rather than something that exists outside themselves. At the same time, educators and commentators continue debating whether facts should take a back seat to personal experience and individual identity in shaping beliefs.
That’s a dangerous game because if everyone gets their own truth, then nobody gets the truth.
Read the Book
Your Life And What Comes After
Discover God’s plan from Genesis to eternity — and where your life fits into it.
Get It on AmazonImagine playing football where every player makes up his own rules. The game would last about three minutes before somebody got tackled by a guy carrying a lawn chair.
Yet that’s increasingly how many people approach life. But the Bible takes a radically different view. Truth is not something we invent. Truth is something we discover because it comes from God.
Jesus said:
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” — John 17:17
When a culture disconnects itself from truth, confusion follows. Relationships suffer. Institutions weaken. People become anxious because they are forced to invent their own meaning, morality, and purpose.
Common Sense And Truth Are Both Victims
Strange times we’re living in.
The far left has gone so far left and the far right has gone so far right that they converged at the junction of antisemitism, “everyone I disagree with is a pedophile or pedophile protector”, and extreme libertarianism/anarchism.
I guess common sense is no longer cool enough and doesn’t get some folks the attention they so desperately crave.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Child of God, husband, father, grandfather, rabblerouser, songwriter, pot stirrer, waiting for the King.