The WIKITRUTH… 'Always Changing'
Wikipedia is an open source format. Anyone, no matter their education, knowledge, or intelligence level can change the definition of any of the topics that can be searched. China constantly edits out information from their page and the CIA has been known to remove information pertaining to the JFK assignation.
Wikipedia and its information is always changing. It is never solid, never consistent. The question that Pilate asked Jesus at the hour of His execution, 'What is truth?' is alive and well. Truth is relative and changes from one person to the next how ever they choose to edit it or define it for the world.
Truth, by definition, cannot be relative. The way one chooses to live their life has consequences on the people around them. There is a universal truth that is good for everyone. That is the truth of Jesus Christ. No redefinition needed.
Paul deals with the advent of Wikitruth in Romans 1:20-25:
20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful ; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened .
22. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools ,
23. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator , who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Pauls argues from an unchangeable truth as the foundation of everything: God exists and has created all things with mankind as the crown of His glorious creation, created in His own image (Imago Dei). All of creation is the testament to God's eternal power. Through creation, Paul argues that God is revealed, and through man's ability, unlike every other creature, to reason and recognize God, we understand we were made to have dominion.
There is no excuse for not recognizing God in the intricacies of His wonderful universe. We then, are without excuse yet have continually generated them from generation to generation. It is in our failure to recognize God that man must recreate truth.
To reject God's truth is the same as rejecting God.
Man is left to recreate truth, seeking wisdom and education but not the answer to all things. Our imagination is only to the extent of ourselves… what mankind could conceivably do, create, accomplish. In this vanity and foolishness there is no need for faith and without faith it is impossible to please God. All the education in the world makes one foolish if it refuses to recognize the most elemental aspect. God is here. God is truth.
Paul continues to explain our origins of delusion. Because man cannot accept God's law we recreate God into our own image instead of the created order. We create demigods of life, replacements, representations and theories that speak on His behalf, yet it all has a common thread of the capacity of humanity and our desires.
In short; Paul says that mankind has exchanged the truth of God for a lie, according to human desires, ambitions, and goals. Worshiping ourselves and our accomplishments, has not solved world hunger, genocide, disease, or even weather patterns.
When Christians preach and believe the Wikitruth such as: Follow Christ on our terms not His. Follow the words of Christ but not the example of Christ. Take the things that you like, ignore the rest. We are no better than the Rich Young Ruler of the gospels who obeyed every commandment to his own destruction. His observance of the law was futile as he was lost.
Changing truth has a singular root- Love of the world. Because we love the world, the love of the father is not in us and we become blind guides who do not know the way.
But Jesus says' I AM the way, the truth and the life… no man comes to the father but by me!'
There is one truth- Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Blog One: Wiki Gospel
Blog Two: WikiTruth
Blog Three: WikiChurch
Blog Four: WikiJesus
Blog Five: WikiFaith
Chris Anderson wrote an article about a year back in Wired magazine that dealt with this. He was on the other side of the isle though. He doesn't seem to believe in God. In the article, he writes that the only reason evolution is not accepted as fact by everybody is because of the misinformation that Christians put out about creation. He says tool like Wikipedia are the answer to this because they bring us to the truth by concensus. What he is missing is the fact that Truth is not a matter of popular opinion.
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