In our world today there are so many different belief systems that claim to share the truth about life that the question arises, how can we know if any of them really are domains of truth. And while each different belief system has bits and pieces of the truth in them, only the Bible and its biblically based lifestyle can claim to represent absolute truth.
Sadly, all other ways of viewing life are based on relative truths, which in reality are no truths at all. For you see only the Bible, and its absolute truths on all matters, have stood the test of time, and have been able to radically transform those who live by its truths into people of true joy, peace, and rich meaning. Relative truth says that what is true for me may not be true for you and vice versa. Absolute truth says that its truth is for all of humanity and for every time period. And I believe that the only way we can know this kind of truth is if it is given to us by a source of absolute perfect knowledge, wisdom, and supreme authority – or in other words God.
Unlike other religions that claim that they are also the way to God and heaven, Christianity claims to be the only way to God, heaven and eternal life through Jesus Christ. Thus, if the Bible is the only source of absolute truth then by definition all other religions are false attempts to reach God. And the thing that makes Christianity so appealing is that it asks its followers to put its sourcebook, the Bible, to the test to see if it is true. And the Bible, down through the centuries, has proven to be historically true, scientifically accurate, the only book with proven verifiable fulfilled prophecies, the finest book on ethics ever written, and the book that has withstood the most ferocious attempts to destroy it.
My Christian friends you hold in your possession the only book ever written that is supernatural in its composition, totally truthful in every one of its doctrines, is always practical and encouraging to readers of every age group, culture, and time period, and life transformational to all who embrace Jesus – the one true God. No wonder someone once called the Bible our Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth!
But knowing that the Bible is absolute truth, and actually knowing this truth personally, requires we read and study our Bibles. Someone once said it so well that truth is acquired in fellowship with His Word. As we read our Bibles not only will we learn truths about God, ourselves, and all areas of life, but we will be learning just how wonderful Jesus is, how we can worship and please Him, and fortify ourselves with the truth.
And this last point on fortifying ourselves with the truth is so important since we live in a world of relative truth. As I said earlier relative truth in reality is no truth at all and is one of Satan’s greatest tools to deceive people into thinking all kinds of deadly dangerous belief systems. For example, all world religions, other than Christianity, are based on manmade relative truths and can never lead to salvation. And while the absolute truths contain in the Bible are often not popular these truths are the only truths that can bring real peace, joy, and meaning to the soul of mankind. My friends contending for the truth is not always easy in our relativistic truth world, but the salvation of souls is at stake, and frankly, the truth is, what can be more important than that!
Comment: “The Bible – Absolute Truth for All Generations” – You are Special….by the Apologist
When we say, “The Bible is absolute truth,” we are not playing with religious slogans. We’re making a claim that stands or falls on the very character of God Himself.
Curt’s article rightly draws a hard line between relative truth and absolute truth. Relative truth says, “What’s true for you doesn’t have to be true for me,” which sounds humble and tolerant until you try to live by it for more than five minutes in real life. Try telling a judge, a pharmacist, or a bridge engineer that “truth is subjective” and see how far that gets you. The soul doesn’t survive on opinions any more than a body survives on pretend food. Only a word from a perfect, all-knowing, sovereign God can qualify as absolute truth for all people in all generations.
The Bible’s Absolute Truth
Years ago, I preached this very theme at the Madera Rescue Mission, to a room of men who had been chewed up and spat out by sin, addiction, violence, and despair. They were homeless, some fresh out of jail, some hanging onto sobriety by a thread. That night I reminded them of something the world often refuses to say: “You are special because God says you are. You are created in His image, and Christ shed His blood for you.”
When you tell a man who’s been sleeping on a bunk in a mission dorm that “truth is relative,” you’re not being kind. You’re abandoning him. If everything is just perspective, then his pain is meaningless, his sin is negotiable, and his hope is imaginary. That’s cruelty dressed up as sophistication. Absolute truth is not the enemy of compassion. It is the only foundation for it.
So, let’s do this by the numbers.
1. Absolute Truth has a Name and a Voice (John 3:16)
If absolute truth exists, it cannot come from human guesswork. It must come from a Source who:
Knows all things perfectly
Never lies
Stands above all cultures and centuries.
In other words, it must come from God.
Mr. Blattman points us to the Bible as that unique revelation. Historically grounded, prophetically verified, morally pure, and spiritually transforming in a way no other book can claim.
The Bible as Absolute Truth: History keeps confirming its people, places, and events. Its prophecies hit with surgical precision, not vague horoscope language. Its ethics don’t flatter us; they expose us and then heal us.
Empires have tried to burn it, ban it, and bury it, yet it keeps outliving its pallbearers.
Christians aren’t asked to shut off their brains. Scripture actually invites us: test it, examine it, live it, watch what happens. That’s not how lies work. Lies hide from scrutiny. The Word of God walks toward it.
2. Absolute Truth Explains Why You Are Special: Sin and Salvation
(John 10:10)
At the rescue mission, my message was simple and offensive to both pride and despair: God loves you. You have a wonderful value with the Lord. You are His created children, made in His image… and you are also sinners who cannot save yourselves.
That’s the scandal of biblical truth: it tells you two things at the same time:
You are more loved than you dare to believe.
You are more sinful than you want to admit.
From Genesis, we see that God created humanity in His image, with dignity, purpose, and for a relationship with Him. Then comes the Fall: Adam and Eve’s first sin of arrogance and disobedience against God. The result is not a minor bruise; it is a catastrophic separation. Yet even in His judgment, God whispers hope. In Genesis 3:15, He promises that one day the Serpent’s head will be crushed. The cross is not an improvisation; it is the ancient plan.
Later, in the days of Noah, humanity sinks so deeply into wickedness that God sends the flood. But even there, judgment is wrapped in mercy: a chosen family, an ark, a promise never again to destroy the earth by water. Justice and compassion, side by side. This is what absolute truth looks like when it walks into human history: God hates sin with a holy hatred, and yet persistently pursues sinners with staggering grace.
So why are you “special”? Not because you’re better than anyone else. You are special because:
You are created in God’s image.
You are known in your sin and yet still pursued.
You are loved enough that the Son of God entered history to die in your place.
Everyone gets an opportunity to win the ultimate prize.
All it costs – is everything you are.
At the mission, I asked the men to face a hard question:
Would any of you die for billions of strangers who might be cursing your name even while you suffer for them?
Yet that is precisely what the cross is. “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” That is absolute truth in crimson letters.
3. Absolute Truth Is Narrow, but Grace Is Wide (Romans 5:8)
The Bible is not shy about the exclusivity of Christ. Jesus says, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.” That is either intolerant nonsense or eternal truth. There is no honest third option.
Mr. Blattman’s article rightly points out that if the Bible is the only source of absolute truth, then by definition all other religions are false paths that cannot lead to salvation.
That is not arrogance; it is clarity. The gospel is not “one more ladder to climb up to God.” It is the announcement that God came down, because we could never climb high enough.
Scripture doesn’t flatter our moral abilities. God gave Israel “a truckload of laws,” and humanity’s track record under that law proves the point:
Nobody is clean enough in heart, mind, and body to measure up.
We are not “basically good people who need a little inspiration.” We are spiritually dead people who need resurrection. That’s why salvation is “by grace… through faith… not of works, lest any man should boast.”
Absolute truth is narrow in its way (Christ alone), but staggeringly wide in its invitation:
Every nation, every class, every background,
The religious and the burned-out,
The wealthy and the homeless in a rescue mission chapel.
All are summoned to the same cross and offered the same grace.
4. Why This Matters for Evangelists & “Serious Christians” (John 14:6)
If the Bible really is absolute truth, then a few things follow that should unsettle “comfortable Christianity.”
Silence is not kindness.
In a world drowning in “relative truth,” refusing to speak the gospel is not being polite; it is withholding the only lifeline. Mr. Blattman is right: Satan loves the fog of relativism. It keeps people lost while applauding themselves for being open-minded.
We don’t get to edit the message.
Absolute truth is not a salad bar. We don’t get to take heaven, love, and blessing while leaving behind sin, judgment, repentance, and lordship. The same Jesus who died for us also says, “Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Me.”
You are special, but not central.
You matter greatly, but you are not the point of the story.
Christ is.
Your worth comes from the fact that the One who is the point chose to set His love on you, to adopt you as a child of God, and to send you out as His ambassador.
At the mission, I told those men: God’s plan began before you were born, before your first drink, before your first arrest, before your worst decision. His plan is bigger than your sin, stronger than your past, and deeper than your shame. That is what absolute truth looks like when it walks into a shelter with concrete floors and metal bunks.
5. Final Charge (Eph 2:8-9)
If you are a believer reading this devotional today, let me put it bluntly:
You are holding in your hands the only Book that speaks with God’s own authority to every generation.
You are indwelt by the Spirit who inspired that Book.
You live in a culture that is being eaten alive by lies dressed up as “personal truth.”
So read it. Study it. Submit to it. Proclaim it.
You are special, not because you “found yourself,” but because the God of truth found you, bought you with the blood of His Son, and entrusted you with His Word in a generation that desperately wants comfort without repentance, spirituality without surrender, and heaven without Christ.
The Bible is not just “your truth.” It is the truth. For all people. For all time. And the King who spoke it is coming back. Live like that’s actually true.
In His Name
(Thanks Curt!)