Found this devotional from www.DiscoverGod.com. Hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I did!! It is for November 24th.
Unchanging Truth
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens us out and teaches us to do what is right.(2 Timothy 3:16)
A famous New Age believer made a statement in a television interview with Kathie Lee Gifford that everyone goes to Paradise after they die. Then with a question uncharacteristic of the media, Kathie Lee, a strong Bible believer, asked, "Are you saying you believe that the same thing happens to Hitler as to Mother Teresa?" The New Ager stuttered and stumbled and had no reply.
Kathie Lee's poignant question demonstrated the ludicrous nature of those who reject truth. To make the situation more confusing, other people claim to have received absolute truth. For instance, more than a million people purchased the bestseller Conversations with God, Books 1 and 2, which the author, Neale Donald Walsch, insists were dictated to him by God. Listen to the "absolute truth" that Walsch's god advocates: "I do not love 'good' more than I love 'bad.' Hitler went to heaven. When you understand this, you will understand God."
Truth has been a major casualty in our modern culture. In a study by George Barna of Americans between ages 26 and 44, only 27 percent of those who described themselves as born-again Christians strongly believe in absolute truth! Fifty-two percent actually believe that "different people can define truth in different ways and still be correct."
If we look at the phrase "there is no absolute truth," it is logically inconsistent. It states an absolute truth about absolute truth while claiming there is no absolute truth! Furthermore, the whole idea that truth is relative contradicts God's Word and character. God Himself is the basis of absolute truth because He never changes.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
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