Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Truth has this interesting quirk: Only those willing to adapt to it get it.


“If any man is willing to do His will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from myself” (John 7:17).

Truth is a funny thing: If you want it, you tend to find it. If you don’t believe it exists, you never come across it.

A generation ago, Professor Allan Bloom wrote a bestseller called “The Closing of the American Mind” in which he said a growing percentage of young Americans considers the mark of the modern man to be an open mind.

By “open mind” they mean an intellect that tolerates everything and considers truth to be relative, that takes no hard and fast positions, and gives all positions equal footing. To them, a “closed mind” ranks as the epitome of ignorance and backwardness. Keep reading

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