Have you heard someone say, “You have your truth, but I have my truth”?
“To challenge anyone’s ‘truth’ now causes personal offense and seems to be a definite ‘no-no’ in society. How did we ever get to such a point… that no-one is ever wrong anymore because everyone is right?” asks Goodnewsunlimited.com.
When a person says “That’s my truth” and another person presents a different view and says “Well, here’s MY truth,” are those people upset with each other?
Maybe not. If they are Postmodernists, they can still be friends because it will not matter to them that they hold conflicting beliefs. They probably believe a person cannot know something for sure — that all ideas and facts are “believed” instead of “known,” as someone said.
Postmodernists deny Christ’s claim to be the truth, the life, and the way. Today, Christianity is ridiculed as arrogant or intolerant by those who say Christ is not the “only way.” They say there are many paths to heaven
What is “Postmodernism”?
“Post” means “after,” so Postmodernism is “after” (occurs later than) Modernism.
So, first, what is “Modernism”?
“Modernism can describe thought, behavior, or values that reflect current times,” the internet says.
The First World War and the Russian Revolution (1917) led to a belief that the human condition could be healed by new approaches, sources say. This led to the Modernist movement. At the core of Modernism lay the idea that the world had to be rethought, sources say. Many preachers knew Modernism attacked the Bible and old-fashioned moral beliefs based on the Bible.
“Postmodernism is best understood as a questioning of the ideas and values associated with a form of modernism that believes in progress and innovation,” someone said.
Postmodernism considers Modernism outdated and holds that there are no universal religious truths or laws. It proposes that “reality” depends on the situation you are in. For Postmodernists, every society is in a state of constant change; there are no absolute values, only relative ones; nor are there any absolute truths, sources say.
How does Postmodernism view God?
Postmodernists tend to think more about God being everywhere and in everyone — if God exists, they might add.
“Many Christian young people evidence post-modern thinking, which redefines truth as being whatever a person wants it to be. The effects are devastating to morals and lifestyle because these young people do not have the absolutes found in God or His Word to influence their living or behavior,” answersingenesis.org says.
Someone said, “Rather than seeking my truth, or even to understand ‘your truth,’ shouldn’t we make our first priority to discover God’s truth? We will only ever find it in relationship with Jesus.”
“God’s truth is the fixed point of reality, the source of all truth. Truth originates in the very being of God… Every word he speaks, every decision he makes, and everything he does is truth. It is fully and absolutely true,” goodnewsunlimited.com says.
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