By: Gen. Jim – 3/3/25
We live in a time when “Truth” has almost become irrelevant. The world’s people have become so dumbed-down by lies, dis/misinformation, propaganda etc. that even when truth, i.e. loyalty, trustworthiness, sincerity, genuineness are brushed aside as one would brush off a fly on the face. Facts, Biblical or otherwise, no longer count, especially among certain political parties here in the U.S. Biblical correctness among many Church denominations & organization has been replaced with the world’s political correctness. (note: as of a new political change of guard – Biden/Harris to Trump/Vance, all this is being challenged, thank God!).
What is Truth?
Truth, Biblical or worldly, suggests conformity with the facts or with reality, either as an idealized abstraction (as Pilate’s famous words, “what is truth?” – Jn. 18:38 – Greek, alētheia/alēthēs = verity, not concealing. The opposite of this is lanthanō (Gk.) (verb), to lie, to hide (lit. or fig.), be ignorant or unawares.
John 18 uses the word “truth” 3 times, vss.37 (twice) & 38. Pilate, a man of the world, asked Jesus (the man who claims, “I am the Way, the Truth, & the Life!” – Jn. 14:6), “what is truth?”
Jesus (in Jn. 14:6) was saying, I believe, that He was (and is) authentic & dependable revelation of the TRUE nature of His Father; the express image of God’s very person. Jesus told Pilate “… I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth My voice,” 18:37.
We ponder: who hears the voice of God/Jesus today? when one speaks of “truth”, what are they speaking of? “What is truth?” The truth that John speaks of is the true knowledge of God (see 1:14; 8:46,47 etc.), & it is His mission to bear witness to this (3:32). So, affinity with the “Truth” is a mark of membership of Christ’s Kingdom (3:21; 8:47; 10:26-28), as one Bible once wrote.
The Bible – The Word of Truth
Paul wrote Timothy: “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth” – 2 Tim. 2:15. Paul also wrote, “For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before the Word of the truth of the gospel ,” – Col. 1:5.
Why are so many of God’s children hopeless? “Hope” is laid up for the Christian. The verb is a common business term, frequently found in storage receipts, “kept” in the temple. The “hope”, then, is here used in the concrete sense of “the object of hope”, “the promised blessing”, which is represented figuratively as a treasure stored in a heavenly treasure house… secure forever (if we finish our course down here on earth!).
The Bible has been under ATTACK for centuries/ We’re even told by “believers” themselves that the Bible is unreliable & cannot be believed. (See my article on this – Recreant Philosophers / the Emergent Church Movement / One would blush if one reads what some of these scholars/authors/leaders believe & teach.
Let me quote author Phillis Tickles: “… uncertainty became the only fact that could be accepted as fact, not only in the popular mind, but also in large segment of the academic mind as well… Enter the battle of THE Book (Bible). Enter the warriors, both human & inanimate, who will HACK the already wounded body of sola Scripture [“Scripture alone”] into buriable pieces” – Emergent Church author/lecturer, The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing & Why (2008).
If one really wants to get SICK, read their writings – they all have a hatred for revealed TRUTH! I wrote in 2010, “These Emergent Church people, most of them, are recreants (apostates) who have deconstructed grace, faith, & Christ.”
I Now Present Recreant Philosophers
Truth Cont.
The TRUTH is always TRIUMPHANT over lies & those who are faithfully trusting in the TRUTH will see victories which come forth again & again. The more we trust in the TRUTH the more we will see TRIUMPHANT POWER in TRUTH for the same prevails throughout the traditions of atrocity & debauchery. Too many love lies & liars, for their hearts are full or corruption. But God is raising up a new breed of Believers who will stand against diversity & perversity, & the corruption that are the symbolism of vile & reprobate sexual/social/political/religious debauchery.
Set Free by Truth!
Who really wants to be in chains? Well, sadly, there are those that do! As John writes: “He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.” – Rev. 22:11, NKJV. You see, not everyone wants freedom! Many love lies, hence, their lives are full of lies. The ones who love TRUTH will PUKE OUT demons of lies. They will forsake foolery, frivolity, & futility of wickedness, embracing the beauty of Holiness.
Educational centers here in the U.S. have served as training grounds for generations of perverted deviation from the TRUTH & children/young adults have been trained in rebellion, Marxist indoctrination, Political correctness, worldly propaganda, Wokeism etc., hence, a nation of dumb & damned dupes!
New Day!
Yep! It is here. The dawning of a “New Day” is here & it is not QUEER! Triumphant victories are upon us – the Son of Righteousness is Shinning Bright – TRUST in His Words! Amen.