If truth is personal, then disagreement becomes impossible. If truth is personal, correction becomes oppression. If truth is personal, morality becomes preference. If truth is personal, reality itself becomes negotiable. And if reality becomes negotiable, civilization itself begins to dissolve. This is precisely what we are witnessing today.

Few phrases better summarize the insanity of the modern world than the expression, “my truth.” We hear it everywhere. “My truth.” “Your truth.” “Speak your truth.” “Live your truth.” The phrase is repeated so often that most people no longer stop to ask whether it means anything at all. Imagine applying the concept to mathematics. Two plus two equals four. “Well, that’s your truth.” Imagine applying it to gravity. If you step off a ten-story building, you will fall. “Well, that’s your truth.” Imagine applying it to biology. Human beings require oxygen to survive. “Well, that’s your truth.” The absurdity becomes obvious immediately. Truth, by definition, is that which corresponds to reality. It is not created by our preferences. It is not determined by our emotions. It does not bend itself around our desires. Truth exists independently of our approval.

Which is precisely why modern man hates it. Truth is stubborn. Truth refuses to negotiate. Truth does not care about our feelings. Truth does not ask permission before being true. And that is exactly the problem. The modern world is not merely rebelling against God’s moral standards. It is rebelling against the very idea that there is an objective reality outside of itself. The issue is not ultimately homosexuality, transgenderism, abortion, feminism, or any other cultural controversy. Those are downstream effects. The real revolution began much farther upstream. The revolution began when man decided that he would rather interpret reality than receive it.

The first temptation in human history was not sexual. It was epistemological. The serpent did not begin by offering Eve forbidden fruit. He began by offering her a new theory of knowledge. “Indeed, has God said?” Those four words changed the world. The serpent’s strategy was brilliantly simple. Before Eve could reject God’s command, she first had to question God’s authority to define reality. Before she could rebel against God’s truth, she had to entertain the possibility that God’s truth was negotiable. The first sin therefore began with a challenge to revelation. Who gets to determine what is true? God or me?

That same question echoes through every page of Scripture. Pharaoh asked it when he scoffed, “Who is the LORD?” Pilate asked it when he cynically sneered, “What is truth?” The builders of Babel asked it when they sought to ascend into heaven and make a name for themselves. The men of Sodom asked it when they redefined righteousness according to their own desires. Every rebellion begins with the same fundamental assumption: God may have spoken, but His word is no longer final. The modern phrase “my truth” is simply the latest version of the oldest lie in history.

The phrase sounds humble. It sounds tolerant. It sounds compassionate. In reality, it is one of the most arrogant statements a human being can utter. Truth belongs to God because reality belongs to God. The Creator determines the meaning of creation. The potter defines the purpose of the clay. The architect determines the purpose of the building. The author determines the meaning of the story. The creature does not possess the authority to redefine the world any more than a character in a novel possesses the authority to rewrite the book.

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