We could talk about the moral deserts our nations have become, or the turn toward socialism and the catastrophes that inevitably follow such a turn. We could talk about the growing danger of war as nations arm themselves at an alarming rate, or about young minds atrophying before streams of thoughtless, violent, and never-ending games and pornography. Then there is the war on males, particularly boys, and the war on females, particularly girls.

These represent only a few of the imminent dangers facing our society and much of the world. Integral to all these and many others is something we might call “the epistemological crisis.”
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Epistemology investigates the question of truth, how to know truth, and if it is even possible to know the truth. The epistemological crisis, then, is that human beings no longer know what’s true, or if it’s possible to know truth. This results in people living only for pleasure.
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This represents much of the world today. People have concluded that if truth exists, it is unknowable. That leaves them with beating hearts and living brains, but empty souls.
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Without knowable truth, everything rests on opinions, and opinions mold themselves into whatever shape seems most convenient. In such an existence, the thing we call “truth” becomes a mere justification for our desires and feelings. While freedom from objective truth can at first feel liberating, it eventually entraps and entombs people in a nightmare of shifting ground.

A person might feel that 4+4 equals 92,000. But real liberty comes when we can again walk on a solid foundation, knowing that 4+4 equals 8. When truth can be malleable so that it can be “your truth” and “my truth”—it becomes nothing more than a manifestation of our prejudices.

In Jesus, the Bible presents the ultimate answer to the epistemological question. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am… the truth.” In John 8:32, the Lord said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”