Increasingly, it is difficult to know what is true and what is not.
You cannot even be sure that I am writing this because Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be doing it for me.
While AI is useful in many circumstances, it can generate material that seems like the real thing but is not.
Consequently, some people are being seriously misled. Even an academic had to apologise recently after AI-generated evidence he submitted turned out to be false.
‘Fake news’ now is so prevalent that the media is infected with global dis-information. On the ‘Your Letters’ pages of this newspaper we discover quite often what is said to be true one week is claimed to be false the next.
What is truth and where can we find it? Truth is conformity to facts and reality, but people are not always truthful.
So where can we find real truth? It must come from a source greater than us – from God who created and sustains the universe.
And God has chosen to reveal truth to the world. Much of that is in the Bible – well worth reading. It states that God speaks the truth; he declares what is right. (Isaiah 45:19).
God’s revelation of truth is not only in what he says, but in a person he sent – Jesus, who claimed, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father (God) except through me.” (John 14:6).
This access is available through his death by which he offers to forgive all our untruths. We can trust him for that, absolutely.
Peter Jackman from Norreys Church writing on behalf of Churches Together in Wokingham
