For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3–4, NIV 1984).
My Musings – If the time has not yet come, it is drawing dangerously near. For more and more people are turning away from the truth to “my truth,” which is merely a way of saying “what I want the truth to be.”
In other words, “my truth” is merely my opinion of what I want the truth to be. It may be true, or it may not be true. It may, in fact, contradict someone else’s “truth” on the same matter. It is possible that neither opinion is true, but if they are contradictory, they cannot both be the true. This is the fallacy of “my truth.” It may appeal to our “itching ears,” but it may not be “sound.”
My Advice – The truth is that the word truth does not need a possessive pronoun to modify it. With only one exception: “Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in YOUR truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.” (Psalm 25:4–5, NIV 1984).
Our prayer, in matters of faith, should always be, “sanctify [us] by the truth; YOUR word is truth.” (John 17:17, NIV 1984). That is “sound doctrine.”
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