Because God cannot lie, His creation, which is part of His revelation to us, cannot lie either. We might misunderstand it because our knowledge of it is limited or faulty, but the created universe is true and real. I am not saying that created beings, like human beings, do not lie. I am saying that the world we see around us is created by God and is real. It is not a figment of our imaginations or a simulation as some would contend. The very specific revelation of God to us in the Word of God is also true.

The idea is nothing new. The French mathematician and philosopher Rene DeCartes questioned everything because he surmised that insane people cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy—and maybe we are all insane. The only thing he knew for sure was that he had the ability to doubt. That meant his only certainty was that he alone existed. Everything else was uncertain.

Pilate asked the famous question of Jesus when confronted with Jesus’ messianic claim.

“What is truth?”

Post-modernism is built on earlier deconstructionism that—while not always denying that truth exists–did deny that it was attainable with any certainty.

But with AI and social media, the level of doubt and denial has hit a new level.

I was golfing (if you can call what I do on the golf course actual golfing) with a few friends from church last Saturday when someone mentioned the social media memes about Tiger Woods. If you are not following, he has had a history of getting in car crashes while under the influence of various substances. There are very convincing short videos out there that show a Tiger Woods driven golf cart crashing onto a tournament green and Woods stumbling out to put. The AI fakes look very realistic but are intended to be comical.

One of the men in our group—all of us late Boomers or early GenXers—said.

“It all looks so realistic and it’s getting better all the time. In the future, our kids are not going to believe anything they see or hear.”

It’s true. The younger generation today doubts everything. Nasa says that 36% of Americans think the moon landing was faked, and 37% think the WW2 Jewish holocaust is blown way out of proportion. The number is over 50% among young men. This despite the mountains of evidence purposefully collected and preserved to document both for future generations. The evidence for the moon landing is so great that it would be much easier to actually go to the moon than perpetuate such a broad fantastic conspiracy and all the evidence that exists to document it. Allied governments were so overtaken with the breadth of the holocaust against the Jews that meticulous evidence was preserved and is on display at multiple museums as proof. There were in excess of 6 million Jews killed by the Nazi’s and their ilk during WW2.  There are only 15.8 million Jews in the world today according to World Population Review.  There is no way such a crime can be overblown. I know there are some of you reading this that are in the doubter category. Christian, beware.

What should a Christian think of all this? What should a Christian think of the conspiracy theories that abound?

Remember that Satan’s lie is to tell you that others are lying.

That is what he did in the Garden with Eve in Genesis 3:4.

Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

In fact, Satan not only accused God of lying, but blamed it on selfish motives that God kept secret from Adam and Eve. The first being in the history of the universe to propose a conspiracy was Satan.

And yet we know that liars do exist and we must be wary of them.

The story of the Man of God and the Old Prophet in 1 Kings 13 is an example. God gave specific instructions to go prophesy against King Jereboam. He was also instructed not to eat, drink, or stay anywhere along the way, but to return home by a different route.

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