What Is Truth?

“Jesus answered, “For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world — to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.” Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?””

Pilate’s question is the modern air we breathe. Truth as preference. Truth as tribe. Truth as whatever keeps me comfortable. Jesus does not offer a vibe. He bears witness to the truth — and later names Himself the truth. The Belt of Truth is not “my authenticity.” It is correspondence to reality as God defines it.

This is the first Release the Grace apologetics day. Christianity claims that some things are so whether or not we like them: God is; we are not God; Jesus died and rose; sin is real; grace is real. A belt that cannot hold under questions is not a belt. It is a slogan.

Three options collapse quickly: (1) there is no truth — which is itself a truth-claim; (2) truth is only personal — which cannot condemn injustice; (3) truth is whatever power says — which cannot judge the powerful. The Christian alternative: truth is grounded in the character of God and revealed in Christ.

Where have you treated truth as whatever helps you cope?

Lord, You came to bear witness to the truth. Fasten the belt on me. I want to listen to Your voice more than to my tribe, my wound, or my appetite.