When I was interviewing to join Praxis, I was asked the most challenging question I’ve ever been asked to date. What do you believe that almost no one else believes? My thought immediately went to the tooth fairy. That’s a terrible answer. My next thought was flat earth. Also, terrible. I arrived at something fundamental to my spiritual beliefs that I don’t share with many people in Christianity.
All truth is God’s truth.
The idea is simple enough but the reaching implications push many to either side. This eliminates the conversation of truth as relative. This ignores truth as the history of the winning side of any given war. This statement is speaking to truth as the absolute. We may have no idea what it is but “the truth is out there.”
This statement has implications for the theory of intelligent design; that there is a creator of the universe responsible for existence. This is where I lose Christians. It does not say that the universe was created in seven days. It says that absolute truth is God’s truth. If that’s how it happened, wonderful. But if that is not the truth, then it’s not God’s truth. The root of the sentiment lies in the idea that we will not find anything that disproves God in his creation but rather speaks to the identity and purpose of God.
Instead of looking at evolution like a challenge to the creation story of the Bible, change the framework. If evolution is absolute truth, how does it fit into God’s word? If the Big Bang Theory is the truth, how does that fit in? Don’t love your viewpoint so much that you are unwilling to see it through a different lens, especially if that different lens is the truth.