WHAT IS TRUTH?

In America of 2024, Pilate's question to Jesus is more germane than ever: "What is truth?" (John 18:38)

We are inundated with information - but most of us have learned to question the validity of nearly every "fact" presented to us by the TV, radio, and internet. We have learned the news is fake and, with the advent of AI, we can't even trust our eyes or ears. We can count on even the hardest of facts and data to be spun one direction or another. And we now know to ask the experts, "Who is funding you?" 

It's almost enough to drive one to madness. 

This is why I find "probability thinking" to be helpful in preserving sanity. In regard to everything from politics to gossip, rather than jump to a firm conclusion of "this is true" or "that never happened", I am more likely these days to think, "I give that an 80% chance of being true". And, more often than not, I accept the reality that I may never know whether or not any particular thing is true. 

Were we encountering just as much sketchy information ten or twenty years ago? Maybe we were just more gullible and naive?

I think that's 90% probable!  

Maybe Truth has always been elusive in day to day life. Maybe a genuine search for Truth has always been iffy and exhausting. And maybe Pilate's question to Jesus was meant to express his own struggles with determining the truth. 

Christianity's claim that Truth is a Person, and not merely a set of statements or claims or propositions, goes undervalued by most believers. It's worth some serious contemplation. 

And it makes it that much more important to follow Him.