I’m Done with Modern “Truth” and You Should Be Too
I’m not calling subjective feelings, raw data, or cultural consensus “truth.”
No, it’s not “my truth.”
No, it’s not whatever the lab or the algorithm spits out.
And no, it’s not the quiet shame that keeps grown men from even asking the God question.
I spent years in that foggy place between belief and unbelief, the place most men call “open-minded” but is really just cowardice dressed up as thought. I read the philosophers, watched the culture, raised a family, and paid the bills. What I saw was simple: the material-only story leaves people hollow, anxious, and defensive. That’s why I’m qualified to say what a lot of folks sense but won’t admit: something massive is missing.
Once you understand Truth is not a concept but a Person, you can’t unsee it. Everything else starts looking like a cheap substitute.
THE TRUTH IS A PERSON
Epictetus nailed the ancient pattern two thousand years ago: all things are under divine supervision, but not everything is under our control, so seek truth, because only those who find it have a defense. The Judean people had the burning bush and the temple; the Greeks had the Forms and the Logos. Both streams were heading the same direction, preparing the ground for the moment the eternal stepped into time.
Look around.
Kids in school are told the cosmos has no origin story worth discussing.
College kids get shouted down for mentioning God.
Dads scroll past another debate on “my truth” while their marriages fray and their kids drift.
The same culture that mocks faith sells therapy and pills to fix the emptiness it created.
How normal this has become.
How tragic.
MODERN MAN DOESN’T KNOW TRUTH
Are you the guy lying awake wondering why life feels like it’s missing a foundation?
Are you the mom biting her tongue at the dinner table because “faith talk” might start an argument?
Are you the one who once asked the big questions and then quietly buried them because it was easier to stay quiet?
I get it. I lived it.
What changed everything for me is facing the philosophy straight on, no fluff.
People still ask, “Why does truth have to be a Person? Couldn’t it just be some abstract order or impersonal ground of being?”
Here’s the bold, practical answer that shuts that down: impersonal truth can’t explain why truth even matters to you. It can’t bind your conscience when you cut corners. It can’t let you actually commune with it. Impersonal rules don’t intend anything. They don’t create. They don’t speak. But real truth speaks. It reveals. It grabs a man by the soul and won’t let go. That kind of encounter only works if the ground of reality isn’t just order, but Mind and not just Mind, but Person.
Your own ability to think, reason, and love truth is the dead giveaway. The human mind is no accident. That capacity itself screams that the foundation of everything is personal, and not just personal, but self-giving. The Church Fathers saw it clear: the Logos who ordered the cosmos isn’t a cold, static principle. He’s the living Word who became flesh.
Truth is not merely what is. Truth is Who is. And that Who stepped into time and space so we could do more than know facts, we could love Him and actually be changed by Him.
God is beyond being, yes. But He also contains being, or nothing around us would be real. Think about dimensions the same way we do math: we can draw a line, build a square, picture a cube, even wrap our heads around a hypercube. We grasp higher realities in our minds even if we can’t live in them. So there has to be something outside time and space that makes our three-dimensional world possible in the first place.
The proof shows up inside history, not outside it.
Look at the interactions: God walking with Adam and Eve in the garden, guiding Noah through the flood, sitting down with Abraham, speaking face to face with Moses. Then the ultimate move: full Incarnation! The Greek and Roman mind already understood gods walking among men. The Old Testament showed the pattern for centuries: constant interaction, sacrifices that blended sacred and everyday, the holy invading the ordinary. Plato’s Forms were hinting at the real Form stepping into the shadows. Aristotle’s potentiality and actuality gave us the exact language to say divine and human natures united without mixing or confusion. And my favorite, Epictetus, he taught that the Logos’s rational order fills the universe and we should live in harmony with the Divine. He was right about the goal. He just didn’t have the power to reach it.
Then St. Athanasius ties the whole thing together in “On the Incarnation.” Where Plato saw eternal Forms and flickering shadows, Athanasius says the true Form, the Logos Himself, walked into our world. The Unmoved Mover moved into flesh, history, and suffering. Not because He needed to. Because we need Him! He took Aristotle’s transcendent reality and raised it higher. Where Epictetus said we must conform ourselves to the Logos, Athanasius announces the Logos has conformed Himself to us. By grace, what Epictetus could only strive for is now possible.
This isn’t some pagan god pretending to be human, trapped in a temple, or a weak god who can’t stoop to His own creation. This is the one God of all reality, Jesus Christ, transcendent in His Godhood, fully visible in His human personhood. There is only one realistic move left for any thinking man: assent to Truth. Believe in Jesus Christ.
THE WAY OF TRUTH
That’s the concrete path I walk now; Truth by my side. I sit at my study reading the lives of the saints, people changed by meeting Truth, not an abstract idea. The Bible introduces me to this person and helps me talk straight with my wife and kids, pray like a man who expects answers, do my work like it matters to eternity, and own my failures without excuses. No more hiding in abstraction. Just daily assent to Truth.
The governing principle that locks faith, family, finances, leadership, and legacy together is this: Truth is a Person, and your belief in Him is where your life finally gets its real orders. Where your treasure is, there your heart will be as well.
Some of you are feeling that little kick in the chest right now. Good. That’s not shame; that’s the first honest moment you’ve had in a while. The world doesn’t need more entertained, medicated, “spiritual but not religious” people. It needs fathers, mothers, workers, and neighbors who are rooted, clear-eyed, and unashamedly assenting to the real Truth: Jesus Christ, God Incarnate.
If that’s the kind of life you’re ready to build, one where faith and reason finally stop fighting and start working together, come walk with us. Subscribe to Truth and Prosperity. If you’re already following this path, let me know in the comments. If you want to introduce others to Truth, share this article.
The door’s open. The choice is yours. But once you see it, you really can’t unsee it.
-Christopher
