My dear brothers and sisters, of FaithLine: “…there were also false prophets among the people. In the same way THERE WILL BE FALSE TEACHERS AMONG YOU. In secret they will bring in teachings that will destroy you. They will even turn against the Lord and Master who died to save them. His death paid for their sins. They will quickly destroy themselves. Many people will follow their shameful ways. THEY WILL GIVE THE WAY OF TRUTH A BAD NAME. Those teachers are never satisfied. They want to get something out of you. So they make up stories to take advantage of you.” (2 Peter 2:1-4)
Whatever happened to the truth?! Today, the idea of ultimate truth — something that is true at all times in all places and has relevance for our lives — is about as extinct as the dinosaur. In fact, nearly three out of four Americans say there is no such thing as ultimate, or absolute, truth. And the numbers don’t look much better among those who claim to follow Jesus. That’s what the Paul found when he visited Greece. He walked into a group of scholarly Athenians and said, “People of Athens! I see that…you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked…I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you. “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.” (Acts 17:22-24) Paul went on to talk about the real God, and many Athenians listened. They had not formerly known God, but they knew that there was something supernatural that they were missing. The altar they had built showed that they were looking for truth, so when Paul showed up, they were eager to hear about The Lord God Almighty — HE WAS WHAT THEY HAD BEEN MISSING!
JESUS IS THE WAY AND THE TRUTH, THE REAL TRUTH…
FaithLine, Jesus says: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
-Bill Stockham