There is no such thing as truth. They teach us even the little ones. Truth is bondage.

Believe what seems right to you. There are as many truths as there are individuals.

Follow your feelings. Do as you please. Get in touch with yourself, do what feels comfortable.

Those who speak this way, prepare the jails of the 21st century.

They do the work of tyrants.

That's John Piper quoting philosopher and journalist Michael Novak.

It's a quotation that gets at one of the many reasons for why we need the Bible.

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper begins an eight-part series answering the question,

why believe the Bible? In a time when objective truth

is often rejected out of hand, it's crucial to understand why we can trust the scriptures as

the inspired word of God. This seminar series was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church

in September 2001.

I tried to imagine an ecumenical service being called in 32 AD.

Let's get the Rhodians together and the Sadducees and the Pharisees and the Pharisees.

And be sure to invite that itinerant preacher, Jesus.

He's got quite a following.

And let's get them all together here and pray about that tower that fell on those folks in Siloam.

But the precondition will lay down before we have the services that we'll lay aside everything that divides us.

I'm trying to imagine how Jesus would handle that.

So what divides me from the Pharisees

and what devise me from the Syracies

and what divides me from the Herodians

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