Is this statement true? Well maybe for others it is. I don't think it is true, but in today's post-modern culture, my truth is mine and is not an objective truth, so me making an objective statement that truth is truth no matter mine or anyone else's opinion is viewed as error and heresy to the post-modern mind. But isn't this an absurdity? Doesn't our mind, when looking at a red stop sign, recognize it as such? Yet, somebody else who comes to look at the same sign and states, "That's a nice yellow sign!", would it not be an error in need of correction? "Sir, that is a red stop sign, it is not yellow". How absurd would it it be for the mistaken one to cry foul and swear it is yellow. (I understand this is a silly example, and that some people are actually color blind and can't help but see a different color, but this is just an example.) I once was in a discussion with a couple friends on the subject of truth related to religion, specifically the Christian religion, and one of my friends used this "sign" example, yet claimed that all three of us can look at that sign at a different angle and see the sign (truth) but in different ways. I was not able to bring my objection to this, but this is exactly the viewpoint I am speaking of. Each of us looking at that sign saw the same thing, a sign. No matter what angle the three of us viewed it, it remained the original sign. This example is much like this culture today, where the truth could be found, even seen, by all, yet most make their own view of truth to their liking or understanding while ignoring any objectivity. "Truth" is relative to the individual. The consequence: There is no real, absolute, objective, truth to be found. Of course, even this statement is not truth, since truth is not real. It is up to everyone's own subjective interpretation. But this is not what I am writing about right now.
I have been plagued with doubt and concern about this issue of relativism in the Church today. Oh yes, the culture has been embraced by much of what America calls Christianity. I have wondered why it is that one can point out false doctrine and be called a liar instead of examining the objective truth of the Bible first. I have wondered why it is that most of American evangelicalism has such a disregard for biblical theology contrary to the Scripture's clarity on the issue of worshipping in truth. I have often pondered why it is that Scripture can speak so clearly on many topics, including soteriology (doctrine of salvation), yet many don't want to hear of it. They don't want to hear that God is so Sovereign over all, including our salvation, that He alone brings salvation to a sinner. That He has predestined them for salvation in Christ. That there are those He has elected to damnation. That we are totally and completely spiritually dead in sin apart from Christ and can do nothing of ourselves to be saved.In short, the lack of belief in the objective truth of Scripture, theology doesn't matter, we can believe God is whoever we want Him to be. Then it hit me: famine. Famine of the Word of God. Judgement from God upon us. He still calls His own, but others think they know Him when they don't and when corrected on theological error, even heresy, "Oh well, that is just your interpretation". "My God would not do that!". There is a famine of the truth, and when unregenerate people already have minds clouded with sin, both end up bringing about in people a relativity, and the logical conclusion is that none of us have true understanding of clear teachings in Scripture.
What a sad state the Visible Church is in. We wonder why there are so many denominations now, why there is so much confusion and schism and heresy. I believe it is judgement. It is our sin and unbelief.It is our idolatry and whoring with the culture. It's not anything to do with the truth of Scripture. It and it alone is the objective truth directly from God. I pray the Church repent, reform, and conform to the truth the Bible gives us. Else all we have is a professing majority who cling to Ba'al, Mammon, and a golden calf. Cling instead to Christ Jesus.
