The following student report was submitted by Ambassador League Agent Luke W. during the 2009-2010 League.
Mission: Research on Truth
If there is no truth there is no coherence. Without coherence there is no meaning. The brilliant German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche understood this well:
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
By declaring incoherence, Nietzsche drains the cosmos of meaning. Irrationality prompts us to practice immorality and debauchery and die tomorrow. This is the spirit of the age.
The Christian worldview stands as a light in defiant contrast to the pattern of the world, finding the nature of truth and a life of meaning in the personage of Christ who brings us to the Father.
Jesus was revealing himself as the Messiah to the Jews. He said to them:
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was I am." (John 8:58)
In this glorious passage the Savior declares equality, unity, and eternity with the God who declared to Moses, "I am that I am." This same Messiah, or Savior, who was with God at the foundation of the world explains where truth may be found:
"I am the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)
The one who is God declares himself to be the truth. Moreover, truth is found in the character and nature of God. Moses asked to see God’s face; it was too glorious. But now the word has become flesh so that we may see it and be changed into its glory. Man has a mediator to take him to the truth which is found in God – He is Jesus.
Denial of the truth, however, mocks a holy God:
"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." (Romans 1-18-20)
Should it then be any surprise that the father of modern art, Paul Gauguin, declared, "I shut my eyes in order to see?"
The philosopher closed his mind and the artist closed his eyes – despair followed. Nietzsche went mad and Gauguin killed himself. Christ, however, lives. Spread the news that Plato has found his philosopher to rescue the masses from the shadow lands into reality. I declare to you that He is Jesus.
Truth is the most valuable thing in the world for once you know the truth, it will set you free – free from wrath in the next age and free from the incoherence of the present.
