The Source of Objective Truth

 

“For the word of God is alive and active.”

—Hebrews 4:12a

Our current culture does not like rules and regulations. The culture despises anything that might restrain its bent toward wanton pleasure and selfish gratification. Furthermore, our current culture does not want anything to occur that might bring people together. Our culture’s current strategy is to “divide and conquer.” Every day, we are bombarded by a culturally, politically, and socially compliant media with messages that emphasize our differences, hoping to spur us on toward suspicion of each other and finally toward hatred.

In fact, as is all too evident, our current culture hates boundaries so much that it declares there are no boundaries and that all truth is relative. It spitefully disdains the idea that there is any source of objective truth. Instead, our culture talks about “my truth” and “your truth,” but never speaks about “our truth,” or even more importantly, “the truth.”

Standing in sharp contrast to this dangerous and sinful cultural norm is God’s written Word, the Bible, which gives testimony to God’s Son, the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. The writer of Hebrews sums it up best when he writes in Hebrews 4:12:

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

Let us resist our current culture and its pattern of disunity, distrust, and hatred. Instead, let us hold onto God’s written Word as our one and only source of objective truth. Let’s read it, study it, meditate on it, and make it an integral part of our lives. And, let us thank God that He has made His divine and infallable truth known to us through His written Word and through the Living Word, His precious Son, Jesus.

 

Based on a blog originally posted on Monday, August 24, 2015

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