Part of: Truth & Discernment
“That’s your truth” sounds humble, but it often functions as an escape hatch. If truth is personal, then no one can be wrong and no one has to change. The problem is that we do not live that way. The moment something hurts us, we stop talking like relativists and start talking like realists.
Related: faith without guarantees.
Related: discernment is a core Christian skill.
Related: culture shapes beliefs — but doesn’t create truth.
If a person is cheated, lied to, or betrayed, they do not say, “Well, that was your truth.” They say, “That was wrong.” Moral language exposes a hidden assumption: truth exists and it matters.
Relativism also collapses under its own weight. If all truth is subjective, then the statement “all truth is subjective” is also subjective and carries no authority. It becomes a personal preference masquerading as a philosophy.
The Bible’s claim is not that humans are smart enough to invent truth. It’s that God is truth, and truth is revealed. That is why Christianity can be both compassionate and firm: compassion addresses people; truth addresses reality.
When culture rejects objective truth, it does not become free; it becomes unstable. If truth is flexible, power decides what is “true.” That is not tolerance. That is moral outsourcing to whoever controls the loudest microphone.
Truth is not subjective. What is subjective is whether people are willing to submit to it.
Scripture: John 14:6