What is truth?

Is truth a myth or a reality?

Is truth a feeling?

Is truth beyond feeling?

Is truth learned, taught or caught?

Is truth decided by popular vote?

Is truth by popular demand?

Can truth change?

Can we know truth while we live? Is truth only to be revealed after we die? We have to struggle with these questions.

We have to have answers. Our families, our jobs, our friendships and relationships often depend on our beliefs about these questions.

They affect our thoughts. They affect our words. They affect our actions. For anyone who is pondering upon these issues, for anyone that thinks about or has thought about any of these things, I believe there is a central truth.

That truth is that you don’t have to convince me of the power of your decisions. You don’t have to come up with a rigorous proof of why you feel what you are doing is right to me or anybody else.

Convince yourself. If you believe that God is the same God no matter what religion you pursue, try to convince your life of that.

You know what you are dealing with in your life. See if that meets your needs. If you don’t believe that there is even a God, try to convince your life of that. See if the battles you are facing in your life can be met under such a belief.

I have been here for six and a half years and have seen all kinds of articles about truth, God, Jesus, morality and religion. We analyze, we scrutinize and we intellectualize so much, as if through literary and historical analysis we can heal that person who can’t stop being depressed.

We sift through all the arguments, sometimes angrily, sometimes piously, getting mad or getting deep, and that person trapped by masturbation or lust or anger still doesn’t know how to get out. It hurts me to see that.

I believe in the saving power of Jesus Christ, who can rescue us from anything.

You believe in who you believe. That’s fine.

But do you have the power for your life? Do you?

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Chaka Allen

Graduate student

Computer engineering