The lines of truth and lies have blurred significantly in today’s culture that it’s tough to differentiate. Truth is the only key that can unlock complexities life throws at us. The source of truth is as important as that of solving issues of life. Today, justice and the judiciary system primarily exist to analyze the undivided truth to grant justice to a person, but truth has always been a debate over centuries.
Norman Geisler in his book “Why I Am A Christian” states, “Genuine knowledge of truth and goodness has been questioned by skeptics for centuries, few seriously challenged the very existence of truth and goodness until the eighteenth-century’s hopeful modernism collapsed into the twentieth-century’s chaotic postmodernism. If God is unnecessary (as Darwinism seems to imply), or if God is in fact dead (as Nietszche boldly claimed), who is there to write the rules of life? Like a bratty child, may we not, with justification, incessantly reply to all claims and directives, “Says who?—says who?—says who?” As I pointed out, the source of truth can only qualify and validate the truth itself.
We all know that when someone says, "just be straight with me," they want you to be real with them—they want the truth. So, what is truth? Ironically, there seems to be quite a bit of confusion surrounding the meaning of this word. The phrase "speak your truth,” whatever that means, grants those who care to believe in the creative license to redefine reality. Our society has generally fallen prey to denying absolutes and embracing the preferences and opinions of their own beliefs. The Bibles boldly states, “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” If you want to be liberated from your challenges and conditions that imprison you, then you need to know the truth. Now the big question is which truth and what is the truth?
Jesus claimed, “I am the way and the truth and the life” ( recorded in the Bible). He also said, “I am the good shepherd” (recorded in the Bible). Only Jesus in the entire human history had the audacity to claim that He is the truth. Do the claims of Jesus have any objective and universal meaning? Are truth and goodness real and knowable? Or are such matters ultimately beyond our grasp or simply matters of personal preference? Yes, it is, if we are open to know the life of Jesus. His incarnation, teaching, deeds, the incomprehensible works He performed during His lifetime, His prediction of His death and resurrection and knowing the biggest event of His resurrection that changed history set Him apart from all the so-called gods and goddesses of today’s world. If you are open and daring to accept this truth, then all He said and claimed would make sense. Truth does matter because it gives us the guarantee to live a meaningful life here on Earth and at the same time to find hope in the matter of eternity which is life after death.
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