John 14:6 “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life.”

Greetings Brothers and Sisters in Christ. 

In light of the recent Supreme Court of the United States, SCOTUS, nomination I was watching a report on YouTube.   Senator Dianne Feinstein is quoted as saying “The dogma lives loudly within you” as she critiqued Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s ability to make objective decisions regarding constitutional law.

This is an incredibly profound statement.  It describes a certain universal truth that is in all human beings.  It is a fair observation to make of any judge, teacher, or scientist.  Feinstein is saying that the teaching of a person’s faith, their ideology, religion, or politics; their “dogma,” is revealed in their ability to make unbiased decisions based on constitutional law. 

Senator Feinstein said this of Judge Barrett because she is convinced that the Judge’s Christian worldview will prevent her from being objective and so disqualifies her from consideration for a seat on the SCOTUS.  Yet there is also an official dogma that governs secular humanism and the religion of politics that lives so loudly in many of us today.  Just as our Christian teaching lives loudly in us, the secularism of today has it’s own dogma and lives loudly in us too.  The difference between the two is that the dogma of Christianity finds its origin in an unchanging God where the secularists’ dogma finds much of it’s origin in politics, science, and/or ideologies that change with the spirit of the times. 

The Christian worldview is bigger than secularism and constitutional law.  A Christian can use constitutional law as a tool, much like the scientific method is used to come to a logical, scientific conclusion. The Christian can do this without fear of these tools shattering his faith in the Truth.  A pure secularist, who’s truth resides in a political ideology whether conservative or liberal, may find it necessary to bend or force the constitution to meet his political ideology. If the Secularist lets the constitution speak for itself there will eventually be a point where something has to give. He will either have to change his ideology or change the meaning of the law. An ideological change is a painful process.  This is what a Secularist fears.  It is preferable to them to change the constitution than to change themselves. Yet a Christian is protected from this fear because he understands that the law of the land is not constant. Yes, ideologies change, even scientific understanding changes, but these are not the objects of Christian faith. The object of Christian faith is outside of these things. The Object of the Christian faith is the One True God Who never changes.

For the secularist, it is a matter of misplaced faith.  Jesus teaches us, “I am the way and the Truth and the Life.” (John 14:6)  In saying this Jesus is not only claiming His divinity but he is describing Himself as the only Truth, and the only way to the Father, God in heaven. There is no other way. There is no other Truth.  Also the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews teaches us, “So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.” (ESV Hebrews 6:17–20)  Here the writer shows us that this Divine Truth, Jesus Christ the object of our faith, is unchangeable. 

In an interview on Issues etc. the Anthropologist Dr. Ned Farley said, “the Postmodernist says that whatever they present to you will never approach the level of truth because everything is changeable.  But the Christian brings Absolute Unchanging Truth with them, knowing that scientific principles and ideologies will change.”  This protects the Christian from the ever present temptation of trying to change the constitution in order to preserve his faith. 

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It is not the decision making abilities of a strong confident Christian that we should fear. With such a person we are more likely to see an objective interpretation of the constitution.  It is the secularist, who places his faith in an ideology or a political idea, that we should fear.  They face great temptation to wrongly interpreted the constitution so that they do not have to change their precious self made belief system.  They fear the pain of change when the constitution poses a challenge to ideology.

A Christian is more likely to allow the constitution to speak for itself because they have no fear of losing faith. No nation’s laws can change a Christian’s faith in the objective Truth, Jesus Christ Crucified for our sins.  Politics, Scientific understandings and ideologies will change over time.  God the Father Son and Holy Spirit will never change.  God is always the same.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

The peace of our Lord be with you always,

Rev Anthony B Mandile III

Resources:

The context of Feinstein’s statement:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAI_ZgOAbh8

The context of Dr. Ned Farley’s statement:  https://issuesetc.org/2018/08/24/2361-classroom-apologetics-anthropology-101-dr-ned-farley-8-24-18/