What does the Bible say about truth?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
When 52 percent of evangelicals do not believe in absolute truth, something's wrong. For those who profess faith in Christ—who called himself "the way, the truth, and the life"—belief in absolute truth is essential. So why do so many, both within Christianity and outside of its doors, struggle with the claim that absolute truth absolutely exists?
In this video, Dr. Denison answers that question by answering these questions:
- What is absolute truth?
- Why does our culture struggle to believe that absolute truth exists?
- Does truth exist outside of me?
- How can I know what is true?
- How can Christians convince others that truth exists?
- Do all paths lead to God?
- Is Jesus truly the only way to heaven?
- What if I reject “the way, the truth, and the life” that Jesus said he is?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Over the next five to ten minutes, you'll hear Dr. Denison discuss what the Bible says about a particular topic. |
| 0:11.0 | To watch or share these biblical insights, subscribe to the Denison Forum YouTube channel at YouTube.com forward slash Denison Forum. My name is Chris Elkins and I work with Denison |
| 0:24.2 | Forum. Dr. Jim Denison and I have been friends for many, many years. 20 plus hasn't it been, |
| 0:30.2 | Jim? Yeah, we make kindergarten, I think, Chris, maybe first grade. Yeah, we wish. Today we're going to |
| 0:36.6 | talk about something that we could spend a long time talking about, but we're going to try to do this in just a very few minutes. |
| 0:43.6 | Jim, what does the Bible say about truth? We live in a time where fake news, it seems to be all around us. |
| 0:51.2 | You know, post-truth was Oxford's word of the year not so very long ago. |
| 0:56.1 | You know, I've read that only 35% of Americans believe in absolute truth. Let's just start off |
| 1:03.0 | with what is absolute truth. Yeah, absolute truth or objective truth is the idea that truth is |
| 1:08.3 | no matter of the context. It's not just a matter my opinion. |
| 1:11.1 | It's not a matter of your preference. But it is what it is. Two plus two is four whether you like it or not. |
| 1:16.0 | That's an objective or absolute truth claim. Okay. So why does the world now have this struggle, |
| 1:24.4 | and our culture particularly have this struggle with getting their arms around this |
| 1:28.0 | idea of absolute truth. It seems there's fewer and fewer of us who believe that. Yeah, it really |
| 1:33.9 | goes back to Genesis 3-5, where Satan tempted the first humans with the idea, you will be as God |
| 1:39.3 | knowing good and evil. You can make your own decision about what's true and false and what's good and |
| 1:44.0 | evil. And there's this idea in all of's true and false and what's good and evil. |
| 1:44.4 | And there's this idea in all of us that wants to be in charge of our own world and have our |
| 1:48.4 | own definition of truth. But that's coming to our culture through some philosophy that I can |
| 1:52.8 | summarize very, very quickly. There was the idea in the Reformation, of course, that the Bible is |
| 1:56.8 | truth as opposed to Catholic teaching or church teaching. And then some philosophers, Descartes, |
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