Truth Challenge

It is not uncommon today to hear people say, “I don’t believe there is such a thing as truth.” Or, as a leader once challenged me, “There are no such things as absolutes.” Notice what he did? In attempting to debunk absolutes, he said, “There are no absolutes.” Here he established his own absolute. We must call such people to account for their hypocrisy and self contradiction.

Desley & Spencer Gear & Aussie Koalas

You have surfed to the home page of Spencer Gear (with wife, Desley, in the photo), an Aussie (from Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia), with convictions about truth and challenges to truth. Be warned! These are not pages for the faint hearted. If you are afraid of controversy, then move on. I am a committed Christian and make no apologies for defending a Bible-based, evangelical Christian faith in the market place. It not only makes sense, but also matches reality. I’m a family relationships’ counselling manager, working in my spare time on a doctorate in biblical studies.

Human beings are special people (not higher primates) made in the image of God. God’s truth comes with the authority of the Almighty God Himself who designed and made the world. This truth also comes with an eternal guarantee, thanks to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the eternal and divine Son of God.

Truth is under threat

If truth doesn’t matter, why not inject 2-year-olds with heroin when their behaviour is outrageous or they are an inconvenience to family and society? Surely pedophilia is OK when we make up our own values! Why all the fuss about domestic violence? After all, if you decide your own values and I decide mine, anything goes! Leave me alone! If I want to be a New Age guy devoted to postmodern values, enjoy them! But please don’t bother me.

This is what is happening to truth. But especially in a postmodern society, we need to ask and answer the question that has big ramifications: What is truth? When truth decays and loses its absolutes, startling things happen in many areas of life.

In these pages (which are still under construction), you will be challenged with a biblical world and life view. Check out how God’s truth can be applied to all of life. You’ll find examples on these pages.