Statistics indicate that somewhere between two-thirds and three-fourths of adults in America believe that the truth is relative (i.e. that each person gets to define what truth is for themselves). I don’t believe that most people recognize how vastly this differs from the ideologies which helped to form our nation or the repercussions of such a paradigm shift. In light of that, I offer these thoughts on truth.
1. A man who deceives himself is incapable of being truly honest with anyone else.
2. A truth that can be altered based on perception is like a compass without a “magnetic north” – it is utterly useless.
3. To the man who seeks to find meaning in life, the truth is a welcome friend; but for the man who seeks nothing beyond his own comfort, it is a relentless adversary.
4. It is not the open mind that finds truth, but the heart that yearns for justice.
5. Throughout history the Constitution of the United States has been one of the most successful documents of its kind. Regardless of its’ many lofty principles, it is the relatively simple phrase, “we hold these truths to be self evident” that has been at the core of that success. At the point that those words no longer ring true, the rest of the document and the republic for which it was written will cease to be relevant.
6. A man who is unwilling to succumb to a truth that is higher than himself is destined to become a victim of his own vain imaginings.
7. There is no such thing as “new truth”. The truth has always been; it is only our perception of it that changes.
8. In a society that embraces the idea that every man is allowed to define truth for themselves, every law becomes susceptible to the charge that it is an obstacle to personal liberty. Such a society is destined to progress toward a state of lawlessness.
9. It is not truth that is relative to us, but we who are relative to the truth.
10. If every man is allowed to define truth for themselves, then God has no just standard by which to judge them; but if truth is absolute and unchanging, every man’s life speaks for itself.
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