"What is truth?" That is the question Pontius Pilate asked rhetorically as he turned away from the battered and bloody man standing before him, The Man who was, and still is, the Answer to that question.
In today's world—especially Europe, but also the USA to a lesser but still very significant extent—the very concept of truth itself is being dismissed by many who are caught up in "postmodern" thinking. This mindset holds that "truth" is only a construction by the culture or the individual, so that what may be true for one is not true for another. Thus, truth is relative. Necessarily, the meaning of words is not fixed, but a function of interpretation, so that each person can construct his own meanings for them. Adhering to that fallacy leads only to external chaos and internal emptiness.
What is truth? An English dictionary says: "That which is in accordance with fact or reality; that which actually is." In Scripture, the Greek word translated "truth" is aletheia, which means......
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