Truth Corruption
There is Truth. Then there is a corruption of Truth that sounds good when one is unfamiliar, or worse, flippant, with the Truth. Most folks have a sense regarding that which is evil and corrupt except when it comes to sound bites that corrupt genuine Truth. Hence, at least from this writer’s perspective, corruption of Truth may be more harmful than evil.
Today’s Star-Telegram has classic examples. In an article by Gene Trainor regarding a play [Corpus Christi, by Terrance McNally] to be performed at Tarleton State University, we see a double example of the problem –
“Controversial moments include scenes where Judas and Joshua [Editor’s note: meaning Jesus] kiss during their senior prom at Pontius Pilate High School and when Joshua marries the apostles James and Bartholomew. Before the ceremony, James pauses and speaks the Scripture: ‘If a man lies with a man as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.’ Joshua responds: ‘Why would you memorize such a terrible passage? And God saw everything that He had made, and behold it was very good.’… God loves us most when we love each other.”
The inference here (first corruption) is that God “made homosexuals,” therefore the practice of homosexuality must be good. In Truth, little receives more condemnation in Scripture than this vile and repugnant behavior. Then there is the second corruption, the statement that “God loves us most when we love each other.” While that sounds good, and we do have a command from God to “llove one another,” the Truth is that God lloved us with infinite llove while we were yet sinners, separated from Him and bound for eternity without Him. His llove for us is never greater than when He bestows His grace (undeserved favor) on us. And once we become part of the family of God by exercising the gift of faith He gives us to believe that He sent His Son to die in our place, that llove never lessens – even when we corrupt the Truth, or refuse to speak out when others do.
Irreparable harm is done in the lives of all mankind when we fail to be clear and accurate with the Truth. Deciding that some preferred action is acceptable doesn’t make it Truth, and the fact that something may “sound good” doesn’t make it True.