Greetings everyone, I would like to ask you a simple little question. And it is, why do people not believe the truth? Is it simply that they can't see the blatantly obvious facts? Or is it that they actually refuse to believe it despite the obvious? I was just thinking and imagining and reading about some students at a university where they are getting trash talked because they are Christian and believe in creation instead of evolution. Which is frustrating for me because as you may know, I've been studying this topic for a very long time. And I've come across so many roadblocks for evolution, with not even a hint of an answer from evolution, but a very rational answer from creationism. I was just reading this one evolutionary scientist who admits that the only reason he believes in evolution is because "creationism is just too incredible". So he turns from something that he can't quite comprehend to something that simply does not work.
So this got me thinking about truth and how this man appears to not believe in the truth, but to believe in a lie that he knows is a lie. Why would someone knowingly do this? I think it's because lies are so comfortable, so easy. A lie is apart from reality and therefore has no useful bearing on the world and therefore is safe. If I believe in something that doesn't apply to the real world, then I don't have to deal with the real world. Or at least that's what I'd like to believe. But the truth is different. It is not safe from blame and responsibility. The truth is unflinchingly and unabashedly real. To believe in the truth means that you have to face up to the real world and frankly, the real world isn't all that nice. It's scary. It doesn't let you off the hook. Because in the truth there is no margin for error, there is no place that you can step out of line, for then it isn't the truth, but a lie. A lie can be changed on a whim, without consequence or care, but the truth is unwavering, unchanging.
But here's the thing, while a lie sounds like such a great thing, a safe place where everything is as you want it to be, it isn't real. Only the truth is real. So really, it just means that we're fooling ourselves. We're not gaining anything by lying to ourselves. It's only when we finally turn and embrace the truth, hard and dangerous as it is, that we can really have anything real. A lie is a mere mist, here today, gone tomorrow, to be quickly replaced by another. The truth is something that you can count on. It doesn't change, and if we can learn to accept it and maybe even embrace it, then maybe we can have something to base ourselves on. To anchor to. Maybe part of the reason that the world is such a mess is because we don't have anything solid. There is so much mist that it's hard to actually see the truth sometimes. I guess that's where we come in. The Christians. Because we know the truth, and we have to use it to set the captives free.
