THAT’S NOT HOW TRUTH WORKS
We live in a world where people often speak of “my truth” and “your truth,” as if reality were something we can sculpt with our preferences. But that is not how truth works. Truth does not bow to our desires, or adjust itself to our moods. A person may want pantheism to be true—may wish to dissolve God into the trees and oceans—or may prefer a universe without a Creator altogether; but our preferences do not create reality. Truth stands outside of us; it is not born from the human imagination but revealed by the God who is, whether we acknowledge Him or not.
Christianity never asks us to close our eyes and pretend. Faith in Scripture is not a leap into the dark. Faith is trust—trust in the character of God, trust in the promises of God, trust in the works of God. But that trust is built on something solid and immovable, something confirmed by history rather than invented by feelings. The gospel does not begin with “once upon a time”; it begins with verifiable events—moments in human history involving real places, real people, real witnesses.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the central example. You and I cannot simply choose whether it happened; we must face the evidence. And the evidence is abundant. The eyewitnesses who saw the risen Christ—men and women who touched Him, walked with Him, ate with Him—were real individuals who left behind written testimony. Their accounts were circulated while hostile witnesses were still alive, and yet they held firm. They were beaten, imprisoned, exiled, and executed for refusing to deny what they personally saw. People may die for a belief, but no one willingly dies for a lie they invented. Their courage confirms their sincerity; their lives confirm their testimony.
If truth were merely a matter of preference, then no worldview could ever be wrong. But Christianity presses upon us the weight of fact. The apostle Paul wrote that if Christ is not risen, our faith is empty and useless (1 Corinthians 15). He staked everything—not on a feeling, not on a philosophy, but on a historical event. Christianity is not true because we choose to believe it; we believe it because it is true. The tomb was empty. The witnesses were numerous. The message spread across continents not because it was convenient, but because it was undeniable.
So when we speak of faith today, let us speak clearly. Faith is not the power to create truth; faith is the grace to embrace the truth God has already revealed. Truth is not ours to craft—it is ours to receive. And the ultimate truth, the truth above all truths, is that Jesus Christ really lived, really died, and really rose again. We may accept it or reject it, but we do not get to reinvent it. Truth belongs to God, and He has made it known to the world.
BDD
