We, in Western Europe, live in an age of tolerance, respect, diversity and inclusiveness. Everyone is to be open to the opinions and beliefs of others. Except, of course, any opinion or belief that suggests exclusivity. The world is open to all ‘truth claims’ except absolute truth claims. Anyone who claims to have ‘the truth’ is understood as being judgemental, intolerant and disrespectful of the beliefs of others. This philosophy is so shaping and moulding our culture that to question it or to go against it is to come across as either evil or insane. I exaggerate not.

At a very basic level. the philosophy of our day is ‘all truths are equally valid’. To suggest otherwise is to commit the crime of disrespect. Before I bring scripture to bare on this matter and highlight the issues for the Christian. Let me first identify one smacking big contradiction regarding this philosophy. The claim that ‘there is no absolute truth, is, in itself an absolute truth, claim.

This philosophy has subtly been getting pushed for years. So much so that many people in this generation do not even realise that they have been eating, sleeping and breathing the philosophy of relativism. Everything is relative. Nothing is certain. Don’t be too sure about your beliefs. To be certain of anything is pride but to be uncertain is true humility. Yet the truth is, all of this is anti-christian at its core. According to the Word of God truth exists and truth has been made known.

 Psalm 31:5 (New International Version)

 5 Into your hands I commit my spirit;
       redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth.

Here is one of the first problems with our ‘anti-truth’ culture. God is the God of Truth. Truth is the very character of our God. Our culture is truth denying because ultimately it is God denying. Our culture rejects truth because it rejects God who is the God of truth! The Apostle Paul in the book of Romans describes the process in this way.

“Romans 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.”

The bible connects our attitude to truth with our relationship with God. If we live by truth, we will come to the light, and the light of Gods truth will expose our darkness for what it is. Many however fear the light. They want to remain in darkness. Their rejection of ‘absolute truth’ is a desperate attempt to hide from God. However in the day of God’s judgement, his light and truth will expose everything for what it truly is.

John 3:21
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”

Perhaps one of the strongest statements which Jesus made about truth was this one.

John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

As sure as God is the God of truth, Jesus is God the Son incarnate. He is God in human flesh. He is the truth embodied. He is the truth. He is not one truth in the midst of many. He and he alone is the truth. There is no other truth. There is no other way to God. There is life in no other for he alone is the true eternal life.

‘But that is just your opinion’ you might say. The world we live in reduces belief to the realm of personal opinion. God however has no personal opinions. What God says goes. The bible, when held to be true by a believer, is not that believers personal opinion, it is divinely revealed truth. People may object to this claim on the basis that belief about the nature of a religious text is simply personal opinion. However where we fall on this area is of utmost importance for the world to come. Those who embrace Gods word, accept his truth and show themselves to be ‘of the truth’. Those who reject God’s truth show themselves to be exactly that, God rejecters and truth rejecters. You are free to reject Christ and His claims. Jesus put it this way.

John 18:37
“For this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”

 We are living in the time of the great sifting. God is sifting the nations. Those who are of the truth and those who are not. Those who are his and those who are not. We are not God. He is God. He is calling to the nations to repent and believe on his son for forgiveness and eternal life. At the end of the day truth is very important.