The Postmodern Christian (What is truth?)

The Correspondence Theory of Truth

Truth corresponds to reality.

Modern View of Truth

Truth is not absolute but subjective

Any attempt to claim truth is narrow minded

Truth is contingent on historical and social context

“all claims to know what is true are in reality covert attempts to manipulate people” - Friedrich Nietzsche

PostModern Quiz (What is 2+2?)

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Common Statements will hear

You need to see from another perspective

Believe in yourself

Respect everyone’s beliefs

If you want to be something, you can.

Follow your own path, don’t let anyone tell you what to do

Do not judge anyone for what they believe

We have progressed as a society, its 2024.

How this relates to Christianity

Some people believe that the Bible is actually true.

Some people believe that the Bible is not actually true, but it is true if you want it to be in your heart

What is the Bible’s View on Truth

John 14:6 LSB

6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me.

1 John 1:6 LSB

6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not do the truth;

2 Peter 2:1–3 LSB

1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with false words, their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

2 Peter 3:16 LSB

16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Common Statements you will hear from students who leave the faith

You need to see from another perspective

Believe in yourself

Respect everyone’s beliefs

If you want to be something, you can.

Follow your own path, don’t let anyone tell you what to do

Do not judge anyone for what they believe

We have progressed as a society, its 2024.

Conclusion

Understand that a large portion of the country today not only disagrees with Christian teaching but does not think that truth exists

When you share the Gospel with someone, you need to understand that many people do not believe that truth is even possible

Do not cave into this horrible idea that objective truth, real truth, true truth does not exist.

Acts 17:30–31 LSB

30 “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now commanding men that everyone everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He determined, having furnished proof to all by raising Him from the dead.”