O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge— by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen. (1 Timothy 6:20-21)

False Knowledge

President Abraham Lincoln loved to employ this brain teaser to make a point to constituents. He would ask, “How many legs would a sheep have if you called his tail a leg?” Naturally, they would meekly respond, “Five.” Lincoln would then say, “Wrong. You are mistaken. The sheep would still have just four legs. Calling something a leg doesn’t make it so.”

Truth is older than error, and the minions of falsehood try to redefine what God says is right and wrong. Every generation tries to reinvent the wheel of truth. They suggest that modern man thinks differently and that human knowledge has advanced to a higher plane of understanding. From this quagmire of ignorance, the intellectual elite are unable to define what a woman is and believe that men can produce babies. The sexual revolution has evolved into the acceptance of identity confusion of men who think they are women and women who believe they are men. This acceptance has led to absurd allowances, especially in sports where men compete against women identifying as women. One area seldom heard from is where women who identify as men compete in men’s sports. It would be a tragedy if a woman identified as a man and tried to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Redefining truth does not change the truth. For many years, people believed the world was flat. Just because they believed the world was flat – did not make the world flat. The truth of the earth’s curvature cannot be dismissed simply because someone believes it to be a flat surface. A man who identifies as a woman is still a man. As Lincoln pointed out, “Calling something a leg doesn’t make it so.” A person can believe they are a dog or a goat, but creation has established that all creatures remain within their own kind. A cow will always be a cow. A person can call a cow a horse, but the cow still moos, eats grass, and, in some cases, produces volumes of milk and will never be a horse.

The will of God establishes truth. The Lord does not change the truth to please the whims of human reasoning. Sexual immorality (adultery, fornication, homosexuality, etc.) can be accepted by the norms of society, but that will not change the mind of God. Calling an affair a relationship does not change the fact that it is adultery and a sin before God. Isaiah pointed out that the children of God called evil good and good evil, but in the eyes of God, good remained what He said was good, and evil was unrighteousness. Truth is not relative. God establishes truth. There is only one way, one truth, and one life.