Post-modernism plays runs a dangerous experiment. They remove the word 'the' from before truth. The consequences of this act are devastating to society and the individual.
The word the is a word of particular distinction. It makes a significant difference in many of the phrases in which it is applied. Recently there was a significant dust up in the relationship between our President and the nation of Israel. Back in 1967 following the six day war…the U.N. Security Council resolution 242 stipulated that Israel was to withdraw their forces “from territories occupied in the recent conflict…” The wording there mattered. The United States, which was on the Security Council, at that time, had demanded that one word be dropped from this resolution, the word ‘the.' Originally the resolution was set to demand that Israel withdraw from “the territories occupied in the recent conflict.” By dropping the definitive ‘the' Israel was allowed room to maintain some of those territories for their own defense. The major reason for the upset of Israel with our president this week is that he, in essence, is the first American president since 1967 to re-insert the ‘the' before those territories. This would leave Israel no wiggle room to retain land necessary for their own defense. The is an important Word…
We Christian's understand this. When Jesus presented his central cosmic importance to humanity he did so by proclaiming in John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth and the life…”
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