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Truth Can Never Be Wrong
By Les Grant
In today’s world, most people want to make everything relative. Everything is interpreted as it relates to other things. This sounds good and some have gone on to say there is nothing absolute. Nothing can be proved entirely true. Everything is relative, so can you be sure you are sure?
Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek wrote a book recently titled: I Do Not Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. In this book, they make the statement that faith may be relative, but truth is not. For instance:
Truth in its very nature is exclusive. It excludes everything else. It is not possible that truth can be plural. Someone gives you $100,000.00 and tells you to buy an automobile. What choice do you have? You are free to decide the make, color, model, but an automobile must be bought. You cannot buy an airplane, boat, scooter or a sailing ship. The command limits you to one thing: an automobile.
- 2 + 2 = 4. It can never be anything else.
- Black is always black. It can never be gray because then it becomes gray that can never be anything but gray.
- Darkness will always be darkness because when the light appears, darkness vanishes.
- Paul tells the young preacher in 2 Timothy 1:13 to follow the pattern of sound teaching. This means that there is a pattern of unsound teaching or one would not have to be aware of sound teaching.
- All non-Christian religions are false because the Bible says there is only one way to be saved and that is Jesus Christ. “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to me by which they must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) Not Mohammed, Confucius or even Al Gore.
- Since there is only one body mentioned in the Bible, and that body is the Church, then we can know there is only one Church (Ephesians 1:22-23 and 4:4). Since it says there is only one body, there can not be many bodies right.
- Jesus said the way to heaven is narrow. Therefore, it cannot be broad.
Baptism is not relative because the Bible clearly states the one baptized must be buried. “Buried by baptism into Christ…” (Romans 6) It cannot be sprinkling since the word used for baptism means to plunge under.
Geisler and Turek tell the story of a Bible-believing student who went home on Spring Break. Interested in what other churches taught, he visited one of them on Sunday. As soon as the preacher announced his sermon topic, the student knew he had made a mistake. The preacher said, "My sermon is that all religious beliefs are true.”The student was very uncomfortable during the sermon, and when it was finished, he wanted to slip out unnoticed. He was unable to do so. The preacher caught him and hugged him hard.
“Son, where are you from?”
“This is my hometown,” he replied. “I’m on seminary break.”
“What religious beliefs do you hold?”
“I’d rather not say, sir. You might become angry.”
“Not at all, not at all. Tell me. I believe that all religious beliefs are right.”
“Okay,” the young man answered as he leaned forward to whisper. “Sir, I believe you are lost because you are a false teacher because of what you said today.”
The preacher turned slightly red and stuttered some before replying, “I guess, ah, I guess I made a mistake. Not all religious beliefs are true because your religious belief certainly isn’t true.”
Sound teaching can never be anything else because as soon as I or someone else says, “I think this is okay,” the sound teaching becomes like the black that turns to gray. It’s like the candle that removes darkness from the room.
Light can never be anything but light. Black can never be anything but black.
Iron Mountain-Kingsford church of Christ, 405 North Balsam St, Kingsford, MI 49802 - 906-779-9477
