Reflection Options  

Journal (reflect on one or more of these questions)

• What questions do you have about how to identify truth? What are your current conclusions about where stable truth can be found?

• What do you think of the concept of absolute truth? Where do your thoughts come from? 

Quote Interaction (Interact by agreeing, disagreeing or otherwise engaging with the quote/quotes)

• “We should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.” Francis Schaeffer

• “Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.” Eric Bell

• "You and I can discover truth, but we cannot create it. What’s true is true and what’s not is not – for all of us, all the time. Our culture views truth as something inside us, subject to revision according to our growth and enlightenment. Scripture views truth as something outside us, which we can believe or not but can never sway."  Randy Alcorn

• "Such is the immutability of truth, the patrons of it make it not greater, the opposers make it not less; as the splendour of the sun is not enlarged by them that bless it, nor eclipsed by them that hate it." Thomas Adams, Puritan

Reading and Reflection from the book, Shaping The Journey of Emerging Adults:

• Read the section called “Value Shifts” & “The instability of truth.”  (pp. 33-35) What did you think of the statement “All may differ but all may be right”? What has been your own journey in regard to whether or not there is such a thing as stable or a“big T” truth?

• Read “Personalized Spirituality” (p. 36) If you had to give percentages, what percentage of your beliefs align with classic orthodoxy vs. “pick and choose orthodoxy.” Has this always been the case? What has caused it to change or shift?