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 Whew!  I don’t know if that was harder to reed oar two right.  OK, I’ll stop.

It seems that the more we advance technologically, the less we have to depend upon our own knowledge of truth and abilities.  Pretty soon cars will be driving themselves and even parallel parking.  You don’t need to know your simple math tables because every cell phone has a calculator in it.  And on top of all of the “truth” becomes more and more obscure.  Everyone can have their own truth, and they are all equally valid.  

 I don’t know what kind of philosopher came up with this idea of all truths being equal but I’m sure they most all have the “coexist” pumper sticker on their care with all the religious symbols morphed into the letters of “coexist”.  I’m also certain that they all come from the little town, a town so small that they didn’t even have a village idiot, so they all have had to take turns.    

In summing up Christianity many students say,

“We like his stories, but that’s just his truth. I have a different truth.”

America has adopted the view that “all truth is relative to the individual

and his/her circumstances.”  Recent studies reveal that the majority of our young people would agree.

“What is Truth?”  Pilate asks that question as he was standing right in front of the ultimate truth.  Why couldn’t he see it?  He didn’t want to see it.

It would shake up his world view too much and require him to change his life, which no all-powerful king likes to do. And so for the all-powerful American, awash in the freedom paid for at such a heavy price. 

Rather than holding to the traditional definition of truth as correspondence to reality, young people seem to have adopted a pragmatic approach to truth. In other words, many young people see truth as what works in their lives, rather than a belief that accurately reflects the world. If it feels good, do it. Today Americans often pick and choose what works for them. 

This is a “designer god” mentality.  You can make up your own god. 

You can define god as to who he is and what is moral or not.  For all practical purposes you get to be god. 

This kind of teaching, so often drilled into our kids from secular “agenda driven” schools, leaves faith inundated in moral relativism.  Religion is not considered an objective truth to which we submit, but only a matter of personal taste which we choose.  It falls into the category of personal preference, leaving nothing right or nothing wrong.  After all, “Who am I to judge?” 

Well, at some point you do have to judge, you must draw the line.

But where then is the objective basis for such a line?  Without objective moral truth as revealed in scripture, we are headed for anarchy.  Christians it is time to do your homework about why you believe what you believe about objective truth & then ask God for the courage to speak up. 

Like it or not, you are the last line of defense for American as we knew it.

Veritas pro Christo et Ecclesia,  Pastor Mike