Sanctify Them By Thy
Truth
Thy Word Is Truth
By Pastor Tony Butler
(365-5511)
In order for a New Age secular world to achieve
its humanistic goals, it must eradicate moral barriers that would work against
its pursuits. This is done by declaring
that truth is relative; that is to say that there is no absolute truth. Absolutes are surrendered over to
existentialism, which places personal experience over truth. Man then becomes the measure of all
things. The problem with this New Age
world view is that once the existence of truth is dismissed, people are subject
to believe anything. Since truth isn’t
the issue, one belief is as good as another.
Personal preference and experience become the guiding force in a
person’s life. Life becomes a
smorgasbord of belief systems designed to help people to live their lives
according to their own truth, rather than God’s absolute Truth. When a person accepts the New Age lie, that
truth cannot be known because it does not exist, he makes the words of Jesus
meaningless when He declared Himself to be the “Way, the Truth, and the
Life.” Jesus is merely another choice at
the smorgasbord.
Another problem with asserting or believing that
truth is relative, and that absolute truth does not exist, is that the
proposition is contradictory. If one
believes that relativism is true, and those who don’t believ4e in relativism is
false, then that one has created an absolute, which is the very thing stated not
to exist. Relativism, therefore, refutes
itself.
An absolute is an unchanging truth by which all
things are measured. It possesses
certainty, eternality, and it produces secure boundaries in which people may
conduct their lives. Relativism, in contrast, denies the existence
of absolutes and presents people with no points of reference, no margin, no
morality, and no truth. It cannot give
any certainty to the questions t hat people ask about life pertaining to
meaning, purpose, right and wrong, and future destiny.
God, Himself, is the eternal, existent One, the
divine Absolute of the ages. He is the
Source of all truth. He has revealed His
truth to us by the Word of God, the Holy Bible.
He is knowable, approachable, and invites all mankind to come to Him
through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Man cannot destroy the eternal absolutes of
God He can only deny the absolutes and
say that all truth is relative. When the
day comes when these unbelieving Christ-rejecters are being tormented in the
fires of hell, I wonder if they will say that His judgment is relative.
The Bible tells us that one day, “Every knee
shall bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.”
Dear reader, take God at His Word, which is
eternally true, and bow the knee now to Jesus, rather than having to bow the knee
when it is too late. The truth is that
God loves you, and desires you to be saved from your sins by believing in the
Lord Jesus Christ. He is not a mere
entrée in the New Age smorgasbord, but the Creator of heaven and earth, and the
Savior of all humanity.