What is Truth?

by Mike Ratliff

38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” (John 18:38 ESV)

John MacArthur has a new book out called The Truth War. Al Mohler wrote a short review of this book that is on the back cover.

“[The postmodern age] is the age of no truth, an age that has reached a point of deadly fatigue when it comes to facing the truth-a generation that no longer believes truth can be known. Dr. John MacArthur knows better, and he is armed with the courage to confront this age with a bold defense of truth….His argument is compelling, his defense of truth is brilliant, and his concern for the church is evident on every page. The evangelical church desperately needs this book, and it arrives just in time.” - R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

I have deep respect for both of these men. I use Dr. MacArthur’s studies myself. I bought this book in order to get a better handle on the Emerging Church Movement. I also agree completely with Dr. Mohler and Dr. MacArthur that the truth can be known. The world says that it can’t be known and each man’s perception of truth is just a valid as the next man’s perception of the truth. Tragically, this lie has crept into the Church.

Quote from Spurgeon’s Last Sermon

“He is the most magnanimous of captains. If there is anything gracious, generous, kind and tender, lavish, and superabundant in love, you always find it in him. These forty years and more have I served him, and I have nothing but love for him. His service is life, peace, joy. Oh, that you would enter it at once! God help you to enlist under the banner of Jesus even this day! [Spurgeon's last words from the pulpit of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, June 7, 1891]“