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POSTMODERN TRUTH

Dr. Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, defines how Postmodernists have refined truth. “According to postmodern theory, truth is not universal, is not objective or absolute. Every culture establishes its own truth. All truth is socially constructed. Truth is made, not found. The role of the intellectual is to deconstruct truth claims in order to liberate the society.”

Stop and think just what this theory is propounding! It is saying that what we believe to be truth today probably will not be tomorrow,

because truth is ever changing to the whims of one culture. What is acceptable today is subject to change as society would dictate. This theory has far-reaching adverse effects to the stability of mankind. No one can be truly sure of anything. Our laws, which may be right today, could be changed to suit the moods of culture. Standards that are considered just and right today can be changed to be acceptable to tomorrow’s society. Nothing is for sure!

This mind-set has already taken a strong grip on the world’s current thinking. This new tolerance has the effect of making a bigot of someone who does not go along with its own definition. In essence, this new tolerance is totally intolerant to other points of view. It has attacked the Judeo/Christian concept of what is truth. Truth is found in God’s word, the Old and the New Testaments. These truths do not change. Neither does their author, for there is no variation or shadow of turning with God (James 1:17). What truths that are found in the Book of Genesis through Revelation are still true to this day and will never change regardless of what man would like you to think. God’s word condemns homosexuality (Romans 1:24-27; Leviticus 18:22). Our culture would like you to accept this practice as just another lifestyle and not for what an abomination to God that it truly is. Pro-choice supporters would have you believe that abortion is the right of a woman for an unborn child is not yet a being. Untold millions of unborn babies are sacrificed daily on the altar of convenience because of this worldly philosophy. God had different ideas about the unborn child in Exodus 21:22-23: “If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life

for life.” God definition of when a child has life is quite different than that of pro-choicers.

The world continues to look for and discover the truth, but Christians already have it in Jesus Christ and God’s word. Satan continues to try to divert the believer off-track by his very subtle philosophies. He is quite successful with those of the world and they will as his instruments try to convince everyone else to accept their false concepts. Sadly, there are some churches today who have been taken in by post-modernist’s ideology and even some of their leader preach it from their pulpits.

There is only one true source of unchanging truth that will guide a believer’s walk in the crooked and perverse generation (Phil. 2:15). Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, No one comes to the Father except through me.” Satan is a great deceiver and the father of lies. In John 8:44-45 Jesus tells the Pharisees, “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!” He is the god of this world (2 Cor. 4:4).

My dear brethren, let us walk circumspectly (Eph. 5:15), keeping a clear eye on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith (Heb. 12:2), accepting only what God’s word states is true and everlasting. Let us continue to shine forth the truth of His word in this dark world all around us. Remember, even the little light of a candle can overcome the darkness. Let’s be very careful to check out everything, as did the Bereans of old, to see whether these things are so according to the Scriptures. After we have proved them to be true, let us hold fast to them and make sure that no one will deceive us by trying to get us to change our minds and accept something different.

May the words of the Apostle Paul have full effect in our lives. Colossians 1:9-12: “For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.

E. Weeks