What Is Truth? 

   “So Pilate said to him, ‘Then you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say I am a king.  For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.  Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.’  Pilate said to him, ‘What is truth?’” (John 18: 37 – 38) 

   We live in a world where truth is whatever someone wants it to be.  In that world truth changes from generation to generation or year to year, or even sometimes day to day.  If it is changeable, it cannot be the truth.  What is true remains true; otherwise, it is merely opinion.

   That fact seems to have been forgotten in the modernist agenda.  In the eyes of society truth is simply what one chooses to accept as truth.  My truth may not be the same as yours, but both are truth because truth is an individual decision.  The contradiction in that concept is incredible; it supposes that there is more than one truth and that each of us is capable of knowing and defining truth.

   What is true is that “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1: 1).  What is true is that “God so love the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believed in him might not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3: 16).  The Word, Jesus Christ, became man and lived among us.  He taught the truth of God, a truth that has always been and always will be the truth.

   The world continues its slide into chaos, a world totally devoid of truth.  We, as Christians, cling to the truth that never changes.  Jesus came to spread the truth and the truth is that Jesus is the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Him. (John 14: 6).