Her Truth, His Truth, THE TRUTH

Nothing has spotlighted how postmodernistic our nation has become like the recent confirmation hearings of Judge Kavanaugh. Briefly defined, postmodernism is the rejection of objective truth. Postmodernism is the product of university indoctrination of the last two generations with a solipsistic relativism worldview. Two words recently have revealed the blatant postmodernism—“her truth” Over and over in trying to destroy Judge Kavanaugh with Dr. Ford’s allegation of sexual assault, protests were made that Dr. Ford needed to tell “her truth.” Dr. Ford must be believed when she tells “her truth.” “Her truth.” Whatever happened to “THE truth.” Today, there is no “THE truth” only “my truth” and “your truth,” “his truth” and “her truth.” (I am not addressing the veracity of Dr. Ford’s claim, only using what was done with it as an illustration.) We cannot blame the universities only. Hollywood’s also guilty. And, Oprah. She famously urged each one, Speak “your truth.” Even fairly recently, it was enough for enemies of absolutes (especially moral absolutes) to believe each has his own truth. Now, one has a right not only to manufacture his own truth but also to speak his own truth and be heard. The confirmation hearings took this absurdity one step further. Each has his own truth, should speak his own truth and be heard, and now, thanks to the Kavanaugh-Confirmation saga, he must be believed when he speaks his truth. All of this is based on the idea that truth is subjective and not objective. Each person gets to decide how he wants to perceive, interpret, define, his world, and that determines his truth. His truth is not based on correspondence to reality. His truth is simply his choice on how he wants to view and value things. If he feels adultery is acceptable, it is acceptable, and no one can say it’s not. There are no absolutes to determine whether his view is accurate. There is no accurate. To suggest that there is an absolute truth that says his truth is wrong, is to judge, and the one absolute postmodernists allow is “Thou shalt not judge.” Life simply doesn’t work this way: It’s football season. What if for any given game, each coach, each ref, each player got to choose what he wanted the rules to be? The NFL Rule Book would have to go. So would the refs. Soon there would be chaos. There would be no sense to make of the game. There could be no game. There are three huge problems with having “my truth.” First, whatever I believe, there is still an objective world in which I live. I may believe I can fly. But, if I jump off a cliff, my subjective is going to crash on a rocky objective. “My truth” is going be smashed on “the truth.” Second, if each gets his own truth, what happens when two people’s truths opposingly clash? Who’s right? Whatever the protestations that each one’s truth is equally valid, they cannot be. Unless, an absolute is accepted to judge between the “my truth” of one and the opposing “my truth” of the other, the mob decides. The mob cannot appeal to an absolute to say this one is right, so they vilify the my truth of the one that they do not like. Herein is the blatant hypocrisy we witnessed. If Dr. Ford has the right to tell “her truth,” be heard and believed, why does not Judge Kavanaugh have the right to tell “his truth,” be heard and believed? That inconsistency is hypocrisy in and of itself. But, it reveals another hypocrisy. The leftists made a judgment. They labeled “his truth” a lie and “her truth” true. To be consistent, without objective truth no “my truth” is a lie. Each’s truth is true. How ludicrous. Third, although this whole scheme of postmodernism is an attempt to rid our universe of behavior-condemning, absolute moral truth, it has been unsuccessful. Moral truth is inculcated in the heart of humanity, written on the pages of God’s Word, and founded in the immutable nature of the eternal God. There is such a thing as “The Truth.” That truth is not opened to interpretation, negotiation, or abrogation. There is no “my truth” and “your truth,” “his truth” and “her truth.” There is only God’s Truth. God’s Truth is not subjective. It is the same for me, you, and the other 7 billion inhabitants of planet earth. It is the same yesterday, today, forever. God’s Word tells the truth about the world, humanity and me. The my truth and the truth about me are two different things. So are her truth and the truth about her. His truth and the truth about him. And, that’s the Truth.

Her Truth, His Truth, THE TRUTH

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