Yesterday in one of my Bible classes, my professor made an unfortunate, and contradictory, claim. He said: "There is no absolute truth. I don't think you realize what you are saying when you say that there is absolute truth. You as a finite creature, cannot claim to know absolute truth... no more questions because I need to get through this material."
Of course, to say, "there is no absolute truth," is to make an absolute truth claim. I also think that this professor confused an important principle. He illustrated his point with the example of a pen: there are an infinite number of angles with which I can view a pen, and there is no way for me, a finite being, to view the pen from all the angles at the same time. This is true. However, I believe that he confused the idea of knowing all things with certainty with knowing some things with certainty. Sure, there is no way for me, a finite creature, to know and understand all things about God. But I can know some things based on His revelation of Himself. This revelation of absolute truth is found in the Bible.
Now, I don't share this so that I can show off and try to prove my professor wrong. I write it in order that you may be encouraged to "guard the treasure that has been entrusted to you." Satan would love the opportunity to convince Christians that there is no absolute truth. God's Word says differently... we have and know truth, which is found in the Bible.
JE
Yes, a great approach to this postmodern mood in theology ,one of the negative points of our new age is to regard truth as a relative, subjective matter, even when it deals to God
ReplyDeleteAgreed. I have found that often I am required to talk about absolute, universal truth (in the Bible) before I can even explain the gospel.
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