Culture and the Truth
Culture has an amazing way of perverting truth. Have you ever played the telephone game? One person begins with one message and passes it on to the next person by whispering the message as he or she remembers it, into their ear. The message makes its way around the circle ending up with the person who started it. There are some who don’t hear well. There are some who don’t remember. And, there are some who blatantly change the message. The message is always different than how it began.
Well, if the telephone game were the mirror for how we connect in society, then there is every reason to understand why we are so confused. What is the message for us today? What is the truth?
It is obvious that truth is relative to our own experience. It wasn’t always that way. Truth has also been connected to the experiences of others that have gone before us. Truth was three dimensional, built on a foundation of knowledge and experience we didn’t have to possess to acknowledge it. We live in an era where those foundational truths are being challenged and the construction of thought over the past centuries is being rocked and torn down.
There are some positive results from demolition. There is the hope that a newer and better designed structure will take its place. And we get to build it. So, some of my periodic blogging is going to bring up those issues that culture has twisted. You may disagree with some of what I write. That would be okay. It would be great if you would write what you think, too. But, hopefully, truth will take shape for you and grow out of the rubble that our culture has given you.
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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