Good morning, everyone. We live in a world where so many voices claim to have the truth. There are religions that claim to have the truth. There are political commentators who claim to have the truth, especially at this time of elections they claim to be the “right answer” for everything. And so on.
All these voices that claim to have the truth, all they do is contract each other. Some of them even seem to go out of their way to argue with each other; look at politicians for example.
On top of all this, there is a whole different group of people who claim there is no truth outside of ourselves. It’s a moral relativism, where so long as I believe it’s the truth, it’s truth for me.
The problem with all these different competing truths is that we as Christians believe that there is a truth that we can find and follow. This truth is not some philosophy, nor some political platform; it’s not some thing. The Truth that we are called to follow is some body.
This Truth that we are called to follow is a person who became incarnated. This person is Our Lord Jesus Christ, who Himself tells us that He is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life”. We believe as Christians that God revealed the fullness of Truth through His Son. He revealed to us that there is a Truth, and that we are to follow it by following His Son.
People don’t want to hear that. They don’t want to hear that there is an objective truth, and that not every organization that claims to tell the truth is lying, but that there is someone who is the Truth. They don’t want to hear that because that means there are obligations they have to follow outside of themselves, that they cannot control what they think the truth is. However, there is a Truth that needs to lead and guide them.
This takes away from them the ability to justify how they live their lives. If there is a Truth outside of themselves, some of the things that they may be saying or doing are not true, good or right. Instead they want to follow relativism, the idea that there is no objective truth. The fact is that we live in a culture that says that.
Much of our culture is taking that which was revealed by Christ and saying it’s wrong. Instead, what he condemned is now being held as good, so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone and it’s mutually consented, and so on. Much of what was once viewed as a moral wrong is now seen as morally positive, or at least morally neutral. In fact, it seems the only morally wrong thing in the world today is either to be conservative or to judge someone else’s actions.
Of course, we know that there is a Truth, and that we are called to follow that Truth and to follow Him only.
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