Does anyone really care what I think?

The key is in the title:  what I think.  As if it really matters what I think.  What makes my thoughts better or worse than anyone else's?  How does my version of the truth matter more than someone else's?

Therein lies the fundamental problem today.  We have collectively reduced truth to a relative thing.  It unfortunately all came to a head a few years back when then presiding bishop of the ELCA Mark Hanson commented that there were two opposite yet equally valid hermeneutics at work in the ELCA (with regard to views on human sexuality).  There is a fundamental and fatal flaw in that statement.  Opposite things cannot be equally valid in our lives.  It is tantamount to stating that "anything goes," which certainly does not promote the public good, nor is it consistent with what God intends.

Some of you may have just tuned out because you don't believe in God.  I'm sorry you believe that way.  Look around you.  If you want to know more about God, simply look at the universe around you.  If you cannot see the hand of the creator there, you will never find it.  Even the renowned Atheist and humanist Dr. Carl Sagan, near his own death, seemed to be questioning it all in one of his last books - a novel:  "Contact."

For our society to survive, there HAVE to be certain absolutes.  Otherwise, we reduce ourselves to chaos and anarchy.  It is not at all what God intends, and when we stray from God's absolute truth, it gets us into trouble.  It isnt' a matter that God will always punish us for doing so, though that is certainly the case with Israel of the Old Testament.  Rather, it is that to do so brings about certain consequences simply because it goes against what God intends.

So its not a matter at all of what I think.  Rather, its a matter of what God thinks.  There is an absolute truth, but it is set, maintained, and perpuated ONLY by God.  Will we ever truly know or understand the mind of God?  Of course not in this lifetime.  Yet James says "come near to God, and he will come near to you."  So as R.C. Sproul has said, and others have repeated, when the Word of God seems troublesome, the problem is with me and not with it.

So in the end, what I think is that I'm unable to think completely about God, life, and the universe.  The absolutes lie with God, and it is there that we must find ourselves.