TRUTH IS EXCLUSIVE

Truth by itself is exclusive. Tolerance is a great virtue but cannot be upheld if it would cloud truth.

The world of today seeks to be more open, accommodating and ‘overly tolerant’ in all respects. There is a plea to welcome every view, consider them and be open-minded to what views others hold. But it must be said, “You do not want to be so open-minded that your brains fall out”. We seek to accommodate lies even though we need no further education to detect and write them off as lies.

First off, if you chose to accept a worldview and its doctrines, you are simply saying that, the truth of that worldview renders the other ones void and untrue. If all views are deemed right, I am tempted to say none is right. Standing by truth is standing against lies. When you make such stances for what you believe is right, you’d certainly be in conflict with others.

There must be some form of conflict once we live in a world with varying worldviews. Of course God and mammon cannot assume the same status since, ‘no man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other’. Since God did not provide room for the Israelites to fear Him, and serve their own gods, according to the culture of the nations that were driven from the lands they inhabited, there is the need to say no to certain things if we would genuinely hold unto truth.

We must be hypocrites which we cannot be, if we claim or seek to have no conflict with anyone in relation to our belief in the Christian God. When in conflicts with others as a result of truth, onlookers who probably do not share in the truth look on and expect you to hold on to truth. Living peaceably with all should be the goal and we must all seek it but truth must not be buried.

When in conflict because of truth, hold on to truth because, God would be with you through it all. Indeed, peace is absent where truth is wanting. Many have made efforts to pursue peace and such efforts leaving truth behind and facts have it that such exploits end up as nothing more than sheer wild goose chases.

A worldview that begins to compromise on what it holds to be true in order to be an all-inclusive group stands for nothing and is likely to grow as fast as a mushroom and die out when the sun begins to test its strength. It would have nothing to live for. Now, I am not only pursuing a unique exclusive truth and belief just for the sake of it but that is what it ought to be if it is going to be real.

We are all not the same because I hold certain unique views, beliefs and practices that others who may even bear the same ‘name’ as me do not. I cannot pretend we’re altogether right, since that would be a lie and I cannot tell a lie to make your lie seem right. If you would check and accept my truth which is good for us all, then nothing can stop us from having a  lasting peaceful living.

I cannot say we are the same when your view of what the bible says is true is skewed. These are some of the reasons why the doctrine of ecumenism doesn’t seem to hold much water even at its conception; that is if it holds any at all. It only gives false hope to a lump sum deceived and welcomed into the fold without proper education and scrutiny of what they hold as truth. The untoward behaviors which were accepted in out of what I call false love, permeate the systems that allowed it, grow and eventually crowd out the little truth that failed to stay its grounds and be exclusive in its outreach for more numbers.