Dennis Raverty (March 9) attacked an article by Jacob Anderson (March 5) claiming that Mr. Anderson had not read the word correctly.

How embarrassing for Mr. Raverty when he takes another look at Mr. Anderson’s article, and sees that he did in fact quote John 18:37 correctly.

Pilate’s response to Christ’s statement is the very relativism that claims the mind of so many. What is truth? The recent release of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion” has certainly created a great deal of questioning along this line.

A true believer knows truth, “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15).

Isaiah reaffirms this, with his prophecy of Christ’s understanding (Isaiah 7:15). For others there is a lost sight in the reasoning of life. Many have simply forgotten there is a beginning and an end.

There are two things we know for absolutes — that we are in existence, that we think independently and are aware of our thinking.

Finally, if we do exist then we had to be made from something.

From this understanding comes two schools of thought that interweave into every fabric of our lives; nature versus nurture. Nature is worshiped by many polytheists, animists and atheists (who worship science, Halle Berry, etc.).

That we came to being is a series of accidents of nature, or the folly of petty gods. Nurture is worshiped in the form of monotheism (Islam, Christianity, Judaism, etc.), that we were created by God.

The worship of nature is purveyed through science and clouds these simple truths; we are, and we are from something.

I’m sure Mr. Raverty received pleasure from ripping Mr. Anderson, but happiness doesn’t lie in embarrassing someone else, so I will suggest reading Proverbs chapters 1-3, so perhaps people will actually see the absurdity of being a descendant of a single-celled organism. Selah.

Anthony Freeman

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