The very purpose of Christ’s coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men.…
INSIGHTS AND COMMENTARY FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
The very purpose of Christ’s coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men.…
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
—C. S. Lewis—
When any culture starts calling good evil and evil good, Truth is the only rebellion left.
—Dr. Everett Piper—
Key point: America is unraveling because Americans have abandoned truth. Ultimately, the nation’s problems will be solved only when her people embrace truth once again. You can help make that happen. Do not be intimidated by the prevailing narrative. It will fall like a house of cards, and perhaps soon.
This article is part 3 of a 3-part series titled “Beware of Leftist Gaslighters.” Part 1 is available here, and part 2 here.
As He concluded His sermon on the mount in Matthew 7, Jesus declared,
24 [W]hoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
Building on sand is a recipe for disaster, and a great many Americans are doing just that.
The hymn “The Solid Rock” by Edward Mote (1797-1874) draws its theme from these words from the Lord. Specifically, the chorus affirms,
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
all other ground is sinking sand,
all other ground is sinking sand.
America has a Christian heritage, and for 150 to 200 or so years, Christianity provided the moral and ethical consensus that made liberty, order, and prosperity simultaneously possible. However, since the last half of the 20th century (and some would say even before that), the nation began to depart from its solid foundation.
The move wasn’t merely a drift; the nation also was, and has been, led astray by people of influence who embraced and promoted godless ideologies, including relativism — the idea that one person’s “truth” is just as valid as anyone else’s “truth.”
Relativism assumes that truth is subjective and (as Josh McDowell has noted) therefore created by each individual rather than discovered. However, truth is objective. It is discovered and cannot be created by individuals or groups.
Here we aren’t talking about matters like flavors of ice cream or favorite vacation spots. Of course people are entitled to their opinions. Yet, as former US Senator from New York Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said. “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Whether nor not contemporary Americans believe morality and ethics reside in the factual realm, they do; right and wrong are absolute. As a society, we are unraveling because the philosophy of relativism has taken hold and has been a part of our national consensus for quite some time. Just how perilous is the “other ground,” the “sinking sand” that Edward Mote wrote about in his hymn? We are finding out, experientially, in 2022!
This is reality: If two people hold contradictory views on a matter, one of them can be right and the other wrong, or both can be wrong. However, both cannot be right.
The assumption that both can be right certainly is bad enough. However, today we are seeing individuals and groups, and each one within itself is holding two or more mutually exclusive opinions. Each contends or at least assumes, even without realizing it, that all the tenets espoused are true! I call this relativism on steroids. Examples come, not only from moral and ethical arenas, but from the scientific world as well. At the heart of the problem is this reality: facts don’t matter anymore — only feelings, and feelings aren’t a reliable source of truth.
“We the People” have become the “people of the lie.” Our nation is now awash in a sea of deception so vast and of so many lies that it’s hard to count them all. [Note: I have numbered Dr. Piper’s list to make it easier to read.]
“We the People” have become the “people of the lie.”
—Dr. Everett Piper—
The list could go on and on for [many] pages.
I won’t lengthen Dr. Piper’s list with a great many more items, although I could; just as he could have provided additional examples. Here are some items that recently have stood out to me as I have observed what is happening in the world, and in the US in particular.
How much more death and disease do we need to experience before someone is held accountable for the creation and release of this virus? Let alone for the authoritarian violation of individual rights or the countless lives affected by the experimental mRNA vaccines.
This is criminal – and not just because Fauci keeps perjuring himself on Capitol Hill.
Listen carefully to Whoopi Goldberg.
Dr. Simone Gold @DrSimoneGold
Supreme Court Justices just falsely claimed:
Every point is provably false. Even a ‘casual’ look at the medical literature would have enlightened the Justices.
Their ignorance and dangerous spreading of misinformation is a serious problem.
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