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I wrote yesterday<\/a> about the truth of the highway project between here and Castle Rock. It’s not finished even if the governor declared it finished last December. I just found out there are more serious truth issues, reported by BreakPoint on May 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, a colleague noted how a growing number of conservative-minded people he encountered on social media, some of them Christians, were refusing to believe stories about Russian atrocities in Ukraine. Some even rejected that the invasion was an unjustified war of aggression by Russia. When he asked the reason for their doubt, their response was simply because the stories were reported in the \u201cmainstream media,\u201d which has done nothing but lie to us for years.\u00a0– BreakPoint, May 2, 2022<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recommend you read the article<\/a> in its entirety, the main point of which is that truth is truth regardless of who reports it. Something isn’t true just because someone I like says it, nor is it false because someone I don’t like says it. As a math guy<\/a>, I have no problem with the idea of truth. Either your proof is correct or it’s not. Your approach either works or it doesn’t. Even Peter Schickele, creator of the fictitious composer PDQ Bach<\/a> said, “Truth is truth. You can’t have opinions about truth.” (He said that even while he was lying to us!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truth is there, and it is available. Do the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 <\/sup>\u00a0My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
2 <\/sup>\u00a0making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 <\/sup>\u00a0yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
4 <\/sup>\u00a0if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
5 <\/sup>\u00a0then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. (Proverbs 2.1 – 5, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world\u2014to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice. (John 18.37, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, \u201cIf you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.\u201d (John 8.31, 32, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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