Walking distance.  What does that mean, exactly? I saw an advertisement for a condo in Gulf Shores that claimed it was within “walking distance” to the beach. After studying the photos, it looked like the condo was about a quarter of a mile from the beach…across a busy road.  “Walking distance” varies according to a persons age, stamina, and strength.  In other words, your walking distance may not be my walking distance!

That’s understandable.  However, our culture….our society….tries to do the same thing with “truth”.  I’ve heard it said much too often that someone should live out “their truth” as if their truth can be different than my truth.  Truth doesn’t work like that.  Truth has definition and boundaries.  Truth is fact and fact doesn’t change according to the whims of a fallen world.

That is one of the main reason people have such disdain for the Bible.  The Bible reveals truth.  The hard core, unchanging truth of God’s character and purpose.  It reveals right and wrong, good and bad, darkness and light. It is the same truth for all ages of history.  If every generation could simply re-write the Bible according to current thought and desires, it would be totally worthless. 

The Word of God is unchanging.  It reveals actual unchanging truth.  My feelings about it do not matter and your feelings do not matter.  In fact, we are to change the way we feel about things to mirror God’s truth.  Not the other way around.  That’s the way it works and that is why we are forbidden to use the Bible in public discourse and decision making: it tells us the truth and the last thing a wayward nation wants to hear is the truth.

Bro. Tony