What is your foundation for truth?
By Mirley Guerra Graf
What is truth? According to Webster's dictionary, truth is, “the body of real things, events, and facts”. This means it is absolute and not refutable. This means narratives and opinions are refutable.
The next question is where does truth come from? Who designed truth? This part may be tricky to answer. Some may say, “it’s common sense” while others may say, “God designed truth”.
Let’s take a look at common sense. Common sense changes over time and according to cultural norms. This means that common sense cannot be your anchor for truth. Think about this, what was common sense fifty years ago, is not common sense today, and what is common sense today will most likely not be common sense in the next fifty years.
Next, let’s look at how God designed truth. You can test the Bible, investigate it, and verify if it is true. Many historians, scientists believe it is true. Atheists have investigated the Bible and come out the other end as Christians due to its reliability in truth.
In our home, the anchor and foundation for truth are the Bible. The Bible doesn’t change, God doesn’t change regardless of what culture says is cool or woke at the moment. It is sturdy and timeless because what God created was good.
So, how should we Christian parents cultivate a strong foundation in our children?
Ever since starting to homeschool, we have studied the Bible every morning as part of our Morning Time. When we do we get to know him and his design for our world. We learn about sin, grace, redemption, and truth.
My hope is that by educating my children in the truth that God has outlined for us in the Bible training them with apologetics, that they will be strong in their relationship with God.