We want to have our identity so we listen to other people. We look at the culture, the clichés, what the world says. When we now speak, we think that we are heard but it disappoints us because our voice is just another voice along with the masses.

If every view is an opinion, which one is the truth?

If my view is the truth (for me), does that change the truth for you?  If my truth is that: your belief is false, does that make your view false? If my truth is only an opinion, then which one is the truth?

And then we wonder why the world is full of confusion. We wonder why we don’t know who we are or what we are made for, we wonder why there are many broken, lost, neglected, depressed people.

To say that there is no one truth is to contradict the statement in itself. We are scared, deep down we are scared to be found out that our opinions maybe heard but never important. Deep down we know (yet almost unexplainably) we “feel” that we have broken something, some fixed rules, some truth, some law.

One plus one is two. Elementary (unless of course if I say that in my opinion it’s 3 and that is true for me). Does this principle of addition exist before we named it or does it exist because we named it? When we cave men put one egg into a bowl and another egg into the same bowl they have two eggs, I wonder if they know the law of addition? I wonder; if people were then floating in mid air until men named gravity?

Yet we treat truths the same way. Take morality for example. We claim that morality is influenced and created by community and culture or is highly “dependent” on our response; but have we ever thought that morality existed and may have first created the culture and community?

But some truths change, you say. No, those are facts.

Facts change but truth remains the same. Opinions vary but truth is consistent.

I’m happy in what I believe in. I’m cool with what you believe as long as it doesn’t show that I’m on the wrong.

And now we come nearer to the heart of the problem.

We choose what we believe. Whatever we choose, we defend, not for the sake of right or wrong, or truth or falseness but for our own benefit.  We create our own worlds, where in; my opinions are truths and your truths are opinions. I AM MY WORLD.

Isn’t this the problem of our world? We have one planet earth but billions of self made worlds exist. And these “different self made worlds” collide. And isn’t this really the main issue? When one world which is the truth, the absolute truth collides with another world which is its opposite; which is false? We go against the truth.

Isn’t this the reason why we hate Christianity? Not the religion, but the Person? Isn’t this the reason why we rebel against God? The bible calls this sin (note the “I” in the middle of sin).

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” – Romans 3:23

God, is He (or it) true or false?

Our truths (or even our capacity to formulate an opinion) where did it come from? How can we say we are right or wrong? Take the law of mathematics or gravity, do they exist before we “made” them or do they exist because we made them? And if these laws, these truths exist before we made (more like named them) who then really created them?

It must have come from a source. The truth. The source of truths. The Creator. God.

“I am…the truth…” Jesus said (John 14:6)

He is the truth. He wasn’t complaining our falseness by what he said; rather, who he claims to be. The truth.

Isn’t this why we hate Jesus because he claims to be the truth?  Not only his words or mindset or philosophy but Himself.

And we tremble. Because either what he said is false and therefore we are right, OR what he says is true and we are in the wrong.

We reject the truth.

We miss the mark.

We are proven false.

We have sinned.

 

read part 1 – http://daveestrera.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/the-opinionated-jesus-part-15/