Bethel Bible Chapel: What is truth?

June 20, 2013 · 0 Comments

About 2000 years ago the Roman leader Pontius Pilate asked our Lord Jesus Christ that question. How would we answer?

Do we really believe that what we believe is really real? What is reality anyway? If someone tells us a lie, and we believe it, does it make it real just because we believe it? Would we be willing to admit we might be wrong?

Normally we can believe what we see with our own eyes, what we can smell, touch, and sense. Perhaps we only believe an illusion. Can we always trust our own senses? Magicians rely on quickness of hand, smoke and mirrors to confound and amaze audiences when the impossible appears to happen right before everyone’s eyes … and with today’s computer graphics anything can be made to look real.

Perhaps we might believe something is real if someone we fully trust says it is. Are we more likely to believe something that an older or more educated person tells us or would we rather trust our peers? Who really does know? Do this world’s experts always have the right answers? How do we know who really is an expert anyway?

How does one judge relationships? Can we trust what someone we’ve just met tells us? Are we sure that the middle income person living down the street isn’t really a millionaire? How do we know if a person is really who he says he is? Do we ask to see their credentials at the door? We might believe something from someone we know that has a good track record of always being truthful.

Can science really have all the answers? If most people you know believe something is right does that automatically mean that it is? Can public opinion polls be used to determine what reality is? What is a myth? Some myths that people have believed for many years have been proven to be wrong on the TV show “Myth Busters” – or have they really proven it?

Now I have stirred up a lot of questions in your mind. Some of the answers are just good sense and you may have already thought through many of these. There may be others that we may need to at least ponder.

Well, what did our Lord Jesus Christ say to Pontius Pilate about it? He gives an unexpected and an even startling answer. In John 18:37 He declares that … “I was born and came into the world to testify to the truth. All who love the truth recognize that what I say is true.” [NLT] Actually, God has shown us true answers in the Bible about many areas we need to know of life such as … who is God? Who is man? It also teaches about proper relationships affecting work, family, church, community, morals, ethics, and many more.

God invites us to … “come to Him and reason together with Him”. [Isaiah 1:18] He promises in Jeremiah 29:13 that “whoever searches for Him with all their heart will find Him”. He doesn’t expect blind faith but presents credentials about Himself in His Word and uses other ways to prove He is One who can be trusted. Finding God can be an exciting adventure and I challenge you to start your search.

By Jack Gault