How Do We Find the Truth?

The last few weeks I’ve been writing in my newspaper column (www.heraldextra.com, Opinions tab, or see reprinted columns on this blog) to debunk the myth of man-made climate change. It has led me to ponder the question: How do we find truth

That is the Question.

It’s an important question. As people and as a society we need truth. As a nation we need it, as well. We must have a source for truth because there are so many answers to find: about politics, social agendas, family matters, personal conduct, budgets and the economy—the list goes on. The world is one big debate of conflicting voices and beliefs. How can we know what’s correct: do we stop, go, or halt in the middle?

This is one reason why we need God—to be the source of truth. He is the final say because He knows everything. There is no question to ask, no dilemma to solve that He can’t provide an answer for. We’ve heard the saying: “The buck stops here.” God is that end point: what He says is where the buck stops. The answers are found not just in what He says but in how He does things. We follow His pattern.

Consider the dilemma of the atheist, who scorns this ultimate referee. Where does he get a final answer? Every issue is a tug-of-war between two opposing opinions. Without God as an ultimate source of truth, whoever wins the power grab sets the “truth”. When power changes, “truth” changes with it. Rootless and without foundation, it becomes relative—dependent on current events.

That would get confusing. In the end, there would be no need for truth; people would live for the moment and the current regime. Right and wrong would be erased because they would morph—what was once right would become wrong, and vice versa.

This describes secular humanism, the religion where man worships himself, not God. Truth is relative; different for each of us. God doesn’t exist. Neither does judgment, punishment for wrongdoing or an afterlife. (In a total flip flop, however, humanists say we should be kind and treat others well. These are Christian principles. In a major blindside, atheists root their atheism in Christianity.)

In some ways, life would be easier without Christian principles to live up to, providing, of course that your conscience was silent: no rules, no guilt, no need to improve. Long term and overall, however, it would be ugly, (especially when the consequences came due). We would be driftwood on an endless, purposeless sea. That picture is painted in the colors of hopelessness.

For this, and many other reasons, I’m glad there is a God. Because the Constitution of the United States is always close to my heart, I’m also grateful the Founding Fathers, and those whose works they studied, believed in God and followed His principles. Our original governing document rests on this Christian foundation. (I’m not so sure the changed version does, however—that’s why I work for a restoration of the original.) I have confidence in our Founders, in our original Constitution, and in the power of God to help us find the truth.

We need it. 

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