This evening, I just met with an old high school friend at her mother’s house. I reunited with her on Facebook and she is in town for her mom’s surgery tomorrow , so i thought I’d stop by and visit. Pleasant enough, as such visits go. But toward the end we talked about different peoples’ views of God, in different religions, and I was prepared to be bold enough to say, “My experiences with Jesus have been on the outside of Christianity, so I am not affiliated with that religion” (but I never got around to saying that).
She is a Mormon, and I was aware of that at the beginning of the conversation, but she said something near the end of our time on that topic that was patently ridiculous:
She expressed this viewpoint ( a “politically correct” view, so as not to offend, exclude or judge anybody):
“Oh, I believe that everybody’s religion has a ‘piece’ of the truth, as long as it includes Jesus and the heavenly Father.”
As I drove away, the Spirit [and I] shouted out loud to myself in my car, “WHAT’S WRONG WITH HAVING ALL OF THE TRUTH?!!”
NO! It’s not okay to have a “piece of the truth,” because that’s a lukewarm way to live! It’s halfhearted, intellectually dishonest, biblically inaccurate, and it’s . .. it’s. . . ridiculous! Why would anybody settle for that lame excuse for faith?!
Ohhh boy.
Brad
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Hi Brad:
It’s because Xty has discouraged people from believing the truth can be found. Even some of God’s own children don’t believe they can ever know the real truth of God until after death. They have told me that.
It is given to us to know the truth. That’s not the same thing as knowing everything; only God knows everything. But knowing the truth does mean that we understand the gospel and, so, we know how to please God and can sense how God feels about the situations we are in. In this life, that’s all we need to know. If we know that, we know the whole truth.
jdc