Our Triune God

Here’s an excerpt from Our Triune God, Burk Parsons' contribution to the December issue of Tabletalk:

It is becoming increasingly popular for people to speak in terms of their version of truth. They use phrases such as “my truth” and “your truth,” as if there are different versions of truth. I have heard people speak of “my truth” in reference to all sorts of things, including history, ethics, science, and religion. While we are certainly entitled to hold our own opinions, we are not entitled to hold to our own versions of truth, for it is impossible for more than one version of the truth to exist.

This way of thinking is not merely the relativism of the past or postmodern pluralism or religious syncretism. This new way of thinking embodies conceptualism. The philosophical mind-set of conceptualism has emerged as a necessary consequence of the post-postmodern zeitgeist (the spirit of the age) as a way for us to engage with other people with whom we disagree and yet get along. Conceptualism provides people with a way to create their own personally conceived realities of truth so that they can believe whatever they want to believe and deny whatever they choose to deny in accordance with their own concept of truth—even if their own conceived reality has no basis in what is in fact reality. Now people can have their own self-conceptualized realities in which they claim to possess their truth while others (with whom they disagree) possess their own truth, with neither truth being true for all people. All this is done so that they can get along in their shared environment of the classroom, the workplace, the internet, and the church.

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