What Is Truth? - John 18:38

Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no fault in Him at all. - John 18:38

    Perhaps the most demonized man in history asked the most fundamental question any man has ever asked: “What is truth?” His question still resonates today in the shrill voices of unrepentant relativists. Even in Christ’s day relativism held a firm grip on the hearts and minds of humanity. But let us see the question in the context it was presented - “Pilate therefore said to Him, ‘Are You a king then?’”
    “Jesus answered, ‘You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.’” - John 18:37. Christ stood before Pilate accused of claiming a kingdom for himself. As it happened, Pilate didn’t understand the truth because the truth so often eludes those who are blinded to it. This is the curse of relativism: the inability to recognize the truth when we hear it or see it!
    Truth isn’t malleable; it isn’t putty, to be shaped and reshaped again to suit the moment. Truth is the rock upon which actuality rests. Truth is reality. Truth is insensitive. Truth is harsh! Truth is the brightest of lights shining in the darkest of nights. Christ is truth! “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” - John 14:6.
    This is what inflames the post-modern relativists into anger and accusation. The relativists today submit the same question Pilate posed to Jesus, in the same accusatory tone. “What is truth?”
    They tell us that we cannot know the truth, that the truth is incomprehensible. But that is exactly what Satan tells us! Christ called out the relativists in his time. He had a just response for them when they questioned the truth - “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.  You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.  But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.  Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me?  He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” - John 8:43-47.
    What is truth? Christ is truth. He is the only truth, the only way, and the only life. May God grant us the discernment to always know the truth from the lie, especially in these post-modern times.