Thursday, August 18, 2005

Truth

I have been doing some personal research concerning postmodernism. Here is a link to an AP article written several years ago about this very subject. Postmodernism says "there are no absolute truths" which is a ridiculous statement since it is an absolute. Unfortunately, many people are being taken in by this mindset without even realizing what they are doing. They think it's "new" and "cool", but it is all about forming a religion of humans by humans. The primary premise of postmodernism, from a christian perspective, is that the scriptures are there solely for our interpretation and we create our own "truths" from them. This is a completely untenable position when you consider that the Word is Jesus and He is the only way to Heaven. Personal objectivism (the idea that we create truth) therefore becomes more about selling books and patting one's self on the back because of how new or cool an idea is. Christianity was about Christ last time I checked. How do we know Christ if not through His Truth in the Word which is Christ? We can't. That's the truth.

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