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Truth forever on the scaffold<\/span><\/p>\n

Wrong forever on the throne<\/p>\n

Yet that scaffold sways the future, and<\/p>\n

Behind the dim unknown<\/p>\n

Standeth God within the shadow<\/p>\n

Keeping watch above His Own<\/p>\n

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~James Russell Lowell, The Present Crisis<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Not long ago, in a prophetic way, the Boston Globe reported, \u201cIn our culture, it is not acceptable, if you are running for president, to blatantly lie about having an extramarital affair and then taunt the press to find out differently.\u201d\u00a0 It then added, \u201cBut if a lie is along the lines of helping maintain our self-esteem and perpetuate our own self-deceptions, we may not even perceive it as a lie; we may perceive it as being supportive.\u201d1<\/sup><\/p>\n

We ought not\u00a0 be surprised.\u00a0 Even Robert Nisbet wrote, \u201cThe ideologies which gained entry into the academy in the sixties claimed that the fundamental intellectual principles of Western culture were illegitimate and must be overthrown.\u00a0 With that destroyed, terms like truth, good, evil, and soul could be discarded.\u201d2<\/sup> Why do we wonder at the brazenness of politicians or educators of the nineties who were the flower children of the sixties?\u00a0 And why should we be surprised that the polling of soul-mated baby boomers shows agreement?<\/p>\n

Educator Gene Veith writes, \u201cThose who do not believe in truth are more likely, I believe, to lie.\u00a0 Those who believe that moral values are nothing more than the imposition of power may be more likely to use power to suppress their opposition, whether in enforcing politically correct postures in academia or, when they have political power, in acts of tyranny.\u201d3<\/sup> Veith is describing the postmodern man who has discarded both the need and the possibility of truthful writing or speech.\u00a0 He (the PM man) understands that truth in our day is constructed as the writer or speaker has need.<\/p>\n

The fact that we have arrived at such a low state of affairs, is still surprising to anyone not educated within the last thirty years.\u00a0 They may still remember that the Bible upholds absolutes and calls them \u201ctruth,\u201d and condemns violations of truth by calling them \u201clies.\u201d\u00a0 Those who were raised in a Christian surrounding accepted moral the LORD are mercy and truth\u201d (Ps 25:10).\u00a0 But man\u2019s sin makes it very difficult for him to recognize the truth which he holds.\u00a0 C.S. Lewis wrote, \u201cThe moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard.\u201d5<\/sup> This \u201cstandard\u201d is sometimes called The Universal Moral Law.\u00a0 It is the truthful structure of God\u2019s world.\u00a0 Bonhoeffer said, \u201cThe very existence of oaths is a proof that there are such things as lies.\u201d6<\/sup> This truthful world is the context for Paul\u2019s argument.<\/p>\n

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2. \u201cWho changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever\u201d(1:25). <\/em> When people violate a truthful world, they deny God\u2019s reality in it<\/strong>.\u00a0 The immoral acts of man are contrary to the way things \u201cought\u201d to be in God\u2019s world.\u00a0 Ron Mayers wrote, \u201cThe Christian can never agree for a moment to a non-theistic interpretation of reality, and the naturalistic unbeliever of our generation finds it intellectually impossible to comprehend the supernatural and transcendent dimension of reality.\u201d7<\/sup> That is, it is easier to be an atheist than to tell the truth.\u00a0 According to John Leo, the lost man has \u201cAbsolutophobia\u2014an unwillingness to say something is wrong.\u201d8<\/sup> But it is more than a phobia, it is depravity at its best.<\/p>\n

If we wonder today why, when people are polled about this lack of truthfulness, they do not care, we need only to read verse 32, \u201cWho, knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.\u201d<\/em> When sinners see powerful people living a lie (without consequence) that they would like to live, they like it.\u00a0 It gives them hope that their atheism may prove to be right.<\/p>\n

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3. \u201cBut we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth, against them which commit such things\u201d(2:2).<\/em> Liars will be judged by God, the Ultimate Standard of truth.<\/strong> Satan\u2019s grand lie is that we will not be caught.\u00a0 After all, many great people in history have lived by lying and no one seemed to care.\u00a0 When compared to all the liars that have existed, we don\u2019t seem so bad.<\/p>\n

But we will be judged by the One who is Truth.\u00a0 Tozer wrote, \u201cHoly is the way God is.\u00a0 To be holy He does not conform to a standard.\u00a0 He is the standard.\u201d9<\/sup> Satan\u2019s lie will not work for him nor for any other liar. Spurgeon put it, \u201cEvery liar is a child of the devil, and will be sent home to his father.\u201d10<\/sup><\/p>\n

What does all of this mean to the Christian in our age?\u00a0 How can we \u201cbecome all things to all men\u201d when all men want us to lie and construct whatever \u201ctruth\u201d makes them comfortable?\u00a0 Postmodernist Richard Rorty simply asserts, \u201cTruth is what my peers will let me get away with saying.\u201d11<\/sup> And we must ask, what will we let ourselves get away with saying to a man like that?<\/p>\n

If our listeners do not accept our message as absolute, then they are not believing anything.\u00a0 If we show them at every turn that we will change, negotiate or discard almost anything we do, why should they believe anything we say?\u00a0 One older writer said, \u201cHow few are there like Barnabas and Saul, who, because they would not relax anything from the truth, were stoned by the very people who, but a moment before, were ready to offer incense to them as to gods descended upon earth?\u201d12<\/sup> Audiences have always been willing to believe whatever makes them happy.\u00a0 Paul and Barnabas understood how critical the situation was, and so should we.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. Alison Bass, \u201cLying is a Universal Truth\u201d in the Dayton Daily News, July 22, 1996.<\/em><\/address>\n
2. Quoted by Cal Thomas, The Things That Matter Most <\/em>(New York: HarperCollins, 1994) 6.<\/address>\n
3. Gene Edward Veith, Jr. Postmodern Times<\/em> (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1994) 50.<\/address>\n
4. \u201cPostmodernism\u201d A seminar paper by Rick Shrader, p. 19-20.<\/address>\n
5. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity<\/em> (New York: MacMillan, 1960) 25.<\/address>\n
6. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost Of Discipleship <\/em>(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995) 136.<\/address>\n
7. Ronald B. Mayers, Balanced Apologetics<\/em> (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1984) 8.<\/address>\n
8. John Leo, \u201cA No-Fault Holocaust,\u201d U.S. News & World Report<\/em>, July 21, 1997, p. 14.<\/address>\n
9. A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy<\/em> (New York: Harper, 1961) 112.<\/address>\n
10. Charles H. Spurgeon, Treasury Of David, I<\/em> (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1978) 425.<\/address>\n
11. Quoted by William L. Craig, Reasonable Faith<\/em> (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1994) 173.<\/address>\n
12. Jean Baptiste Massillon, Orations from Homer to McKinley, IV <\/em>(New York: Collier, 1902) 1720.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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