On these present times, these words seem to become so dull, blur and never clear. Because these times? People seem to choose what truth is and what is right. Disregarding the Bible as truth or being the right guide for our lives, people will claim their own ideas, perspectives, experiences, feelings or belief to be truth and right.
Indeed, this is not just a philosophical or scientific problem, which many people nowadays simply shrug off and never give much importance or thought of. It is one of the very important issues in life and for everyone that should find the answer in order to deal with it. Why? Because in all honesty and reality we also have what we call "falsehood" or a "lie". And whenever people follow or believe in falsehood or a lie, what follows are negative and never a satisfying consequence.
Sure, there may be some "fun" in it or selfish satisfaction in these, but it is sure to last only for a moment of time. In the end, pain and suffering lurks. Destruction follows after -- destroyed family, destroyed relationships, destroyed trust, destroyed lives, etc. And sometimes the funny thing about human beings, even if they say they don’t believe in God, somewhere in their heart they blame God for their destroyed lives. When pain and suffering creeps, they tend to blame “Someone”, and that would usually be God, the Creator of heaven and earth.
But how do we truly know what is Truth and What is Right? Is it truly based on our own ideas? Our thoughts? Our decisions? Our experiences or feelings? Or is it based on the majority’s decision?
The growing issue or becoming prominent idea what is truth and what is right are becoming based on individual’s idea or feeling of what is right. Statements like “I’m like this because this is the truth of who I am.” Or “This is how I feel so this is truth!” or “You don’t understand what I feel!” and that tends to be their truth and what they think is right.
But if we get this concept or idea of how truth is, that is based on how “we” feel or think. If a murder thinks or feels killing is right or is the truth! Or if a rapist thinks or feels raping women is right or the truth! What then? Surely this is not the basis of truth! Truth cannot be standardized or be based or founded on what “we” or “I” think or feel or experience, because humans are NOT ALL the same.
Now I remember my philosophy teacher teaching that everything is based on what we call “HAPPINESS”. Or, that we should probably base truth or what is right in this so called “Universal Happiness”. But is that really truth? From what I understood from his lectures, the majority or the whole humanity is centered in this called “Happiness”. And, therefore one should depend or base truth in this “universal happiness.”? The problem, does such thing exist? Again, as I’ve said, “Human beings are NOT ALL THE SAME.” Each individual are unique. Not even an identical twin is exactly completely the same. No, they are not. Which means, each individual’s happiness may vary or uniquely different. There may be individuals or a group of people having the same kind of “happiness” but it can’t cover everybody. Some are happy with rain, some are not. Many may be happy when the sun shines, but there are those that aren’t, like those who have “photodermatitis” (allergic to light). In other words, happiness or the majority’s happiness is not the basis of truth and right.
Another illustration or something to learn from why truth can not be dependent on the majority’s idea or thought or experiences as truth can be learned from the story “the boy who cried wolf”. It is a nursery or kindergarten story that teaches about the importance of honesty and trust. But on the later part we could see how truth can not depend on the majority. Although the story has connection about what we call “lie” or falsehood but we would see in the end that the majority of the people didn’t believe the boy who cried wolf. Which in reality of the end of story, there was truly a wolf -- in effect the boy suffered its consequence. From this story we can see that truth can’t be based in the majority, for when falsehood or lie is believed by the majority, then doom cometh after.
Now what? Here is where I’ll offer the basis of “Truth” and
you’ll probably shrug this off or just stop reading by this time. But if you have a
little time and an eye or even an ear to lend, listen to this view or
perspective of “Truth”. Thing is, this is NOT my original experience, idea or
perspective. Neither is this something that originally came from a group of
believers or of a vast majority. But it all starts with the God of the Bible,
the Scripture, the Book of books and it also points to Jesus Christ, the Son of
God. If you understand the Christian Faith, the God of the Bible is a Three Person
in One Godhead, The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit – and they are still
One. It is actually hard to understand, but if you have faith, you will
understand.
Now what is the God of the Bible, the Bible or Jesus Christ has
got to do with “Truth” and “Right”. You see, the God of the Bible never changes
as the Bible states in Malachi 3:6 “For I am the Lord, I change not”; Also in Hebrews
13:8 it says “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” And
Jesus said too in John 14:6 “…I am
the way, the TRUTH, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
Now, take note! God or Jesus is TRUTH and He never changes. With that reality,
we can be assured that the Truth we believe in is not a lie or falsehood.
Therefore God is the basis of what is Truth and what is Right!
In addition, have you ever asked, “Where
did right and wrong came from? Or How did we know what is right and wrong?” Did
man invent it? Saying this is right and that is wrong! No, God Who is the basis
of what is right and wrong printed these in our hearts and minds. That is why
from the beginning, man always knew! But because of man’s original sin, this
had become blur or incomplete or corrupted. A very prominent evidence is what
man is experiencing today. It never was God’ s fault, it was man’s
disobedience. Man betrayed the God Who created him.
Now again, this is just what I can offer. You may decide to
believe it or not. Because, that is just one of God’s Character and God’s gift
to us: a will to decide. The first man decided for himself to disobey God which
had made a great consequence of all the things we are experiencing. And again
because of God’s grace, mercy and love He still offers a way back to Him while
we are still alive and that is through believing on Who Jesus Christ is – the Truth.
That is why Jesus said “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek
and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” (Matthew 11:28-29)