This generation is a generation of “doubters and disbelievers”. We are rejectors of truth.

We weren’t always this way.  There was a time when fact was fact and truth was truth.  All knew it and, it JUST was. There was a time when a handshake settled a matter and a time when a man’s word was like a seal that was not broken. Who can say, really, when the “doubt” began? We know that it existed in the Messiahs’ time among his very own disciples. Thomas doubted. Being faithless, he had to reach out his hand and put it in the Messiah’s side to actually believe that He had risen from the dead. In John 20:29, the Messiah rebuked Thomas and said, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed.” Clouded by his doubt and disbelief, Thomas could not recognize ‘truth’. Neither could the disciples recognize ‘truth as truth’. They too were given a verbal spanking for their unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not believe those who had seen the Messiah after He had been raised up. He said, “He who does not believe will be condemned”. (Mark 16:16)

Truth has never changed. Truth demolishes doubt, crushes confusion and destroys disbelief.  Truth can stand on its own.  It doesn’t need us to stand back and leer at it from around some corner and make questionable comments like: “What’s your angle”? “Can I get that in writing”? “What’s in it for you”? “Is someone paying you to say that”? “What’s the catch”? “How much money are you making from this”? “Is this some kind of joke”?

Our generation can’t accept fact for fact or truth for truth.  Instead, we make attempts to scale the firm foundation of truth and overthrow it through riotous thoughts and senseless imaginations. It’s sad, really. A long time ago, people believed that what was written in the Holy Bible WAS truth. Had a question, the bible had the answer. Needed advice or a problem solved, the bible had the answer. No one dared doubt the bible. They didn’t have to because truth was truth. People didn’t need historical records or archaeological finds or historic relics to tell them that the bible was true. They just knew it because truth stands on its own and cannot be refuted. Accounts of heroism, victory, freedom, valor, emancipation, slavery, defeat, war, peace, famine, pride, disbelief…yes, the bible has given an account for everything mankind has and will go through during his brief life under the sun. Why doubt now? Maybe, it was our gradual descent into lawlessness or, maybe, it was science or man’s technological advancements that has made us a bit weary of taking truth for truth… (Sigh). We would have to go back to the very beginning when the heavens and the earth were created, and that, my friend, we cannot do. So, Truth, … what IS Truth?  Why ask. Go to your bible and just start reading.