In our day, it seems many people do not accept the existence of an absolute truth. It has become what one wants to believe regardless of whether it has a meaningful foundation.

As Jesus stood before Pilate, not long before He was crucified, He told Pilate He had come into the world to bear witness to the truth and that everyone who is of the truth hears His voice. In response, Pilate said in John 18:37-38: “What is truth?”

In John 17, Jesus prayed for His disciples. In that prayer, knowing He would soon go to the cross, He asked the Father to sanctify His beloved disciples in the truth, and he clarified the meaning as He said, “Thy word is truth.”

Of course, we have heard quoted at many funerals John 14:6, in which Jesus tells His disciples that He is the way, the truth, and the life; and that no one can come to God except through Him.”

So we may easily conclude, from God’s perspective, His Word, the Bible, is the only real truth available to us. This also is the conclusion drawn from reliable theology sources as well. For example, in “Elemental Theology” by Dr. Emery H. Bancroft, the genuiness of the scriptures are affirmed, and then are said to be a “complete and divine revelation, which is ... authoritative and binding in relation to both faith and practice.”

Note these terms:

•Complete: No additions to truth as God has already revealed it.

•Divine: It is of God.

•Revelation: It is a disclosure of Himself, His plan and His will to mankind.

•Authoritative and binding: It is to be the rule of what governs our lives and it is also God’s binding of Himself to us according to His Word.

•Faith: Body of beliefs we trust and espouse.

•Practice: To repeatedly and progressively use it in our daily lives as the standard of God’s will for how we live out our faith.

What Is Truth?

God’s Word, the Bible is the only absolute truth we have. Therefore, we are to look at it and trust it for how to have a relationship with the One who discloses Himself and His plan for us in it.

Don’t be fooled or misled by all the opinions, beliefs, deliberate contradictions and, yes, even religions not consistent with the Bible’s teachings. Is is the truth written, and Jesus is the truth living.

His words are life. Trust them and live.