Find your own Truth

Understanding where others are coming from fascinates me.  I may not agree with them at all, but knowing the origins of their thoughts is something I thirst for.

This brought me to a suggested youtuber that showed up in my newsfeed.  This youtuber is a transgender woman who posts positivity and self-acceptance pep-talks.  She often uses the phrase "your own truth."  Apparently, we are free to create and establish our own truths and no one should challenge them.  We are that fluid and free that laws of nature and science, laws of God, and to some extent laws of governments and society don't have to apply to us anymore.

Now, many Christians argue against that.  There are boundaries in science and with God and within society and government, and they are there for good reason.  We have to have a moral standard, benchmarks and boundaries to avoid chaos, confusion, and the breakdown of society into humanism and self-god establishment.

BUT (big but), I am seeing this very "your own truth" trend happening among protestants, particularly modern evangelicals.  They sometimes quote a portion of Philippians 2:12 "work out your own salvation," and they use it to dismiss the very real problem of so many denominations and arguments.  Their response to people who question the confusion caused by so many doctrinal differences among us is that everyone is different and we just need to work out our own salvation.  Basically, no one is wrong, find your own truth, whatever works for you and your personality and go with it as your brand of Christianity.

All that does, at least in my eyes, is mirror the worldview that we can all just live our own truths.

I just can't wrap my head around it!  Either Christ established TRUTH or He didn't.  Truth that we must follow if we call ourselves Christians.  He has laws and rules and facts.  He isn't so fluid as to allow whatever, so long as it is done in sincerity.

I do believe He has a LOT of grace towards us because we are products of generation after generation of the mass confusion of doctrinal differences and the establishment of over 30,000 denominations!

Likely, Christ knew we'd do this to ourselves.  It just kills me that we are not a church of one accord, that there are so many differences, and that because of it I DON'T KNOW THE TRUTH!

I don't want to live out my own truth.  I want to live out His Truth.