The Objectivity of God (cont.)
Last time we mentioned this thought: The Bible, which is truth from our objective God, is objective truth. The definition for objective simply is: being true without bias, without the influence of personal feelings or opinions and focusing on facts and facts alone, giving an accurate representation of reality. This certainly is the Bible! An objective God gives us His objective truth in the Bible.
In order for Christianity to be true and real, it has to have a basis of reality outside of who we are. And God is that reality and truth and has specifically given us reality and truth n His Word. John MacAuthor says this concerning God’s Word, “It is objectively true—meaning it is true whether it speaks subjectively to any given individual or not; it is true regardless of how anyone feels about it; it is true for everyone universally and without exception; it is absolutely true.”
The concept of our society in our day is that nobody can have absolute truth. The idea is that people come up with their own truth. Nobody can have the whole truth is the thought. So, because nobody can have the whole truth, there must be tolerance and acceptance for all beliefs. If someone feels they have the whole truth they are no better than those terrorists who believe the same thing and cause havoc and destruction to all who oppose them.
Consequently, there is the concept that people should come up with their own belief and define their own reality. What we have because of that is a society full of people who are only living for themselves, a society that is, as one put it, “self-absorbed and narcissistic.”
One preacher said this after Bill Clinton spoke to a university some years ago: “Former President Clinton was suggesting it is arrogant to think anyone can know absolute truth. But the real arrogance is that of the person who thinks he can invent his own truth on the fly. When everything “depends on what your definition of is is”—when individuals can reimagine and reinterpret everything subjectively so that each person determines what is right in his own eyes—civilization itself is in serious trouble.
That is the path our society is rapidly traversing now. Having accepted the notion that absolute truth is unknowable, people are willing to accept almost anything in place of the truth.”
We, as Christians, followers of God, followers of Christ, must never capitulate to this kind of philosophy. We must stand strong on the fact that God has given us absolute truth which is objective and is able to guide and direct us in this day and hour in spite of the push to get rid of it. We have the whole truth in the Bible, the book God has seen fit to preserve even to our day. We can know that it is exactly what God wants, and we can know that He knows what is best for each and every one of us.