The Truth about the Truth.

The Truth about the Truth

and why the world can't handle it

By Josh Brown

This will be the title for my English essay due in two weeks, and I've spent the past several weeks gathering resources to write it. When my final draft is completed, I'll make sure to post it.

So why did I decide to write a paper on truth? It's simple. Any truth will always point me to my Savior, Jesus Christ. If I need reminded where Christ went, where He is, and where I'll soon be, I simply remember the truth:

5 j Thomas said to him, “Lord, k we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am l the way, and m the truth, and n the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 o If you had known me, you would havep known my Father also. [4] From now on you do know him andq have seen him.” John 14:5-7

These are sweet words of comfort whenever I find unbelief in my heart. When I'm lost on my own path of righteousness, Jesus never fails to bring me back to this:

"Remember Josh, I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. Your own way, your own truth, and your own life will fail. Your ideas, understandings, and desires are utterly wrong if I'm not the center of them. So look towards me! Fix your eyes on me!"

By God's grace alone, I can truly say, without arrogance, that I know truth. I know truth, because I know Christ. i did not reach truth on my own by any means. Christ conquered my false ideas, understandings, and desires, and replaced them with the truth of Himself.

This doesn't mean I'm infinitely superior, or that I've obtained all possible knowledge. Quite the opposite. I simply acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the truth, and He's allowed me to share in that truth by revealing Himself to me through Scripture.

So with that as my foundation, I'm writing a paper on truth, and why I believe the World can't handle it. More appropriately, why the World hates it. I'll also include the consequences of the rejection of truth.

I'm reading (bust mostly skimming) through several books that I will source as my evidence, and I hope to conduct a few interviews with Pastor's on the subject.

Here are the books I'm using:

- ESV Study Bible

- Telling the Truth - Edited by D.A. Carson

- How Now Shall We Live? - Chuck Colson

- A Confessing Theology for Postmodern Times - Michael Horton

- The Truth War - John MacArthur

- Why Government Can't Save You - John MacArthur

- Lectures on Calvinism - Abraham Kuyper

- Postmodernism 101 - Heath White

- Culture Shift - Albert Mohler

I'm pretty sure I can write a good paper with these sources, but let me know if you recommend others.

soli deo gloria,

- josh