Mike Lowery, pastor of Impact Community Church in Rock Hill, spoke about "truth decay" last Sunday in his sermon.
I had never heard of "truth decay," but it seems to be pervasive in our modern culture.
Truth decay, according to Lowery, is the idea that anything goes, anything is acceptable or anything that you say or do is okay.
Unfortunately, it is in our families and our personal lives, Lowery said.
It's easier to lie and be accepted by others than it is to tell the truth.
For if you tell the truth, you're viewed as being intolerant or judgmental, he said.
Evidence of "truth decay," he noted, runs rampant in our "post-modern, relativistic world."
On the other hand, the Bible, God's divine word to us, says: "You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free."
Strong words that should guide us.
You know one historic figure who didn't live by them?
His name was Joseph Goebbels, right-hand man to Hitler and minister of propaganda for the Third Reich.
This is what Goebbels declared:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie,
and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Lowery and the Bible have it right. Goebbels is rotting in hell.
