Truth According to the Deceived

Yesterday afternoon, I encountered one of the greatest obstacles to sharing the credibility of God's truth while talking to the son of the guy from whom I buy my chemicals. He believes truth is relative to what he believes is true. He said God is big enough to be God for every religion, not just Christianity. He doesn’t believe in hell either. How he sees God is all that is important to him and he said we could talk in circles all day and nothing I said would change that.

Despite his confusion regarding truth, what he said in the end is absolutely true. Truth adheres to the law of non-contradiction, the same evaluation for credibility as the scientific method. Absolute truth maintains its integrity without contradiction. Relativism, on the other hand, is a contradiction. To believe truth is relative, that there is no absolute truth, requires stipulating “truth is relative” is an absolute truth. Trying to meet on the common ground of absolute truth with a relativist would be like trying to meet on the common ground of reality with a mental patient who believes he is Napoleon. In both situations, there is no common ground.

If one is not interested in absolute truth, what would give my experience credibility? If one is interested in truth, the Bible is defensible as a credible source and a source for giving my experience credibility. If experience/belief contradicts the Bible, it is not credible, thus categorizing it among fantasies and opinions. God is the source of truth and author of Scripture, making it absolute and beyond opinion, thus making a relativist’s opinion as to its validity irrelevant.

John 8:31-32 31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

John 8:42-43 42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.