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How to Recognize Liberal Media Lies

We live in an age when we are swimming in a sea of information. From the news media to cell phones to internet access, we are bombarded with more information than we can possibly process. On the internet alone we are confronted with Facebook, Twitter, websites, blogs, news feeds, emails, and never-ending spam, not to mention our compulsion to Google any topic that crosses our mind. This reminds me of what the angel said to Daniel about “the time of the end.” He said, “Seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase” (Daniel 12:4b, NLT). Most of the information we encounter is intended to impact our view of truth—what we believe about life, religion, relationships, needs, wants, politics, economics, etc. Its purpose is to reshape your current view of truth into a view that someone else is promoting. This reshaping may be good or bad depending upon whether your revised belief system is true or false. Paul wrote, “We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth” (Ephesians 4:14b, NLT). We often encounter the same struggle Governor Pilate faced. John recorded Pilate’s struggle with recognizing truth when he wrote, “Jesus answered…‘The reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.’ ‘What is truth?’ retorted Pilate” (John 18:37a…37c-38a, NIV). A popular response to today’s flood of information with its “competing truth claims” is to retreat into what is often called a postmodern belief system, which says that I can create my own personal truth that works best for me while affirming that others may need to create a different personal truth that works best for them. At that point “truth” becomes negotiable and always subject to change. It is no longer absolute! In fact, it is no longer “truth.” However, as Bible-believing Christians, we know that there is absolute truth. I may not have full awareness of it. I may not fully understand it. However, it does exist regardless of my lack of knowledge or understanding. Absolute truth is reality as seen from God’s perspective, visibly demonstrated in the life of Jesus, and recorded in the Bible. Jesus said, “The reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth” (John 18:37b, NIV). The fact that Jesus used the phrase “the truth” means that “truth” is not negotiable. It is not subject to change. It is absolute. It is fixed. It is not “a truth.” It is “the truth.” The Bible instructs Christians to avoid being “tossed and blown about” by information that contradicts “the truth.” In fact, when the spiritual leaders of the church are doing their job effectively, believers won’t be “tossed and blown about” by false information. Paul wrote, “Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ…Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Instead, we will speak the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:11-12…14-15a, NLT). If we are required to “speak the truth in love” then God must have provided a means by which we can differentiate between what is truth and what is false—and He has!