Universal Truth

It’s often suggested today that any argument or claim drawn from revelation is “sectarian.” In order to make a “universal” claim, we need to ground it in something more general than a particular revelation.

Christians assume this as much as secularists. Many think we have to move from revelation to something more universal like “nature” to make truth claims that apply outside the church.

But we shouldn’t. It’s a concession to modern conceptions of religion and revelation that we should challenge rather than accommodate to.

God is God of all. His Word is addressed to Israel first, then to the church, but His Word is addressed to His people for the sake of the world. 

The fact that not everybody accepts the claim that the Word of God comes from the Creator doesn’t matter. Not everyone accepts that there is a morally-binding natural order either, but that doesn’t keep natural lawyers from making universal claims.

You can’t find a more universal foundation for truth-claims than the Word of the God who made the universe.