Like it or not, being a traditional Christian in our current culture means being a rebel. It means taking unpopular stands on highly charged issues such as abortion, homosexuality and divorce. It means risking derision, humiliation and scorn. It means looking at the way things are and — when they undermine the Word of God — challenging them.
Peter Kreeft, in his book The Snakebite Letters: Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society As Taught In Tempter's Training School, includes the following advice from a senior demon to his apprentice regarding the person he's trying to ensnare: “Your patient, like most Americans, is a conformist (though he fancies himself a freethinker). He fears being different, eccentric, or (worst of all) 'a fanatic,' much more than he fears being wicked.”
It reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw recently which read “Spiritual people inspire me; religious people frighten me.” Deeply held religious beliefs are out of fashion in America at the moment.
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This is what it comes down to: What is truth? It is the same age-old question that has plagued mankind ever since the fall in the Garden. That serpent of old, Satan, turned this world on its head when he asked Eve the seemingly innocent question, “Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?” (Genesis 3:1).
With this seemingly harmless question he instilled a seed of doubt in the heart of Eve. She was drawn away from the Word of God by her own desire to be wise like God knowing good and evil. Then, when the desire was conceived, it gave birth to sin, and she ate of the forbidden fruit. Finally, her sin led her husband, Adam, to sin leading the entire world into an age of death, which continues to this day. (James 1:14-15)
This is the same question that plagued Pilate when he stood in judgment over Christ, “What is truth?” (John 18:38). And it plagues us to this very day! Just look around! Almost everywhere you look the debate over what is truth and whether or not it exists rages: the purpose-driven movement, the emergent church movement, pluralism, secular humanism, homosexuality, abortion, so-called “diversity,” so-called “tolerance,” and on-and-on it goes.
To attempt to disprove the existence of absolute truth is sheer folly because to do so one has to know everything about everything, be everywhere in everything at every time. You have to be god to know that truth does not exist.
This leaves us with the same old question, “What is truth?” Frankly, this is a simple question, and it has a simple answer. It is only the pride of men that compels them to ignore the light of the gospel.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God. (John 3:16-21)
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