Oprah’s New York Times best-seller guru, Eckhart Tolle, sums up the “mistaken” Christian notion of Truth as: “A story you had to believe in; which means, a bundle of thoughts.”

In his wildly popular book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Tolle insists there is “only one absolute Truth” and that that Truth “is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time. The very Being that you are is Truth.”

Of course, this idiotic babble is as old as the Tower of Babel and is at the very crux of Satan’s lie program going back to Adam and Eve and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

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Just listen to what all-time New Age “Christ” Jiddu Krishnamurti (raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant of the Theosophical Society and once believed by New Age leaders to be a “vehicle” for an expected “World Teacher”), reveals about his younger years (he lived from 1895-1986) in the 1950 French-translated book Krishnamurti The Man and His Teaching.

Krishnamurti says, “So I have . . . struggled towards that light which is my goal, which is the goal of all humanity because it is humanity itself . . . I suffered but I set about to free myself from everything that bound me, till in the end I became united with the Beloved, I entered into the sea of liberation and established that liberation within me . . .

“Because I am united eternally, inseparably, with my Beloved—who is the Beloved of all, who is yourself—I would show you the way because you are in pain, in sorrow, in doubt. But I can only be a signpost to you. You must have the strength of your own desire to attain . . . You must strive for yourself. . . Your desire must come from your very soul. It must be the result of your own experience, for by that alone will you attain . . .

“Till I was able to unite with the eternal, I could not pass on the Truth to others, till I was certain of having found the lasting goal, I did not want to say that I was the Teacher . . .

“I set out to find for myself the purpose of life and I have found it without the authority of another. I have entered that sea of liberation and happiness in which there is no limitation or negation, because it is the fulfillment of life.

“Because after my long journey towards attainment and perfection I have attained that perfection and established it in my heart and because my mind is tranquil and eternally liberated as the flame, I would give of that understanding to all.”

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Truth in the Scripture is the issue of reality and outside of Jesus Christ there is no reality.

“The ultimate source of all reality for your life—for the universe—is found in Jesus Christ, and outside of Him there is no real life; there’s no reality,” says my preacher, Richard Jordan. “Everything outside of Him is a figment of your imagination. What that means is that everything in your life that isn’t built on Him is an illusion and isn’t real.”

Jordan goes on, “The doctrine, the truths that we rejoice in and rest in and are not simply theological additives. It’s not simply a great story. The gospel’s more than just a love story. It’s more than just an interesting, quaint concept and idea.

“Jesus said, ‘I am the way, the truth, the life,’ and when He said, ‘I am the truth,’ that word truth—it doesn’t mean ‘one and one is two.’ Truth in the Scripture sense—‘Sanctify them by thy word; thy word is truth’—it’s not just, ‘This is right and that’s wrong.’ Truth in the Scripture is the issue of reality.

“I’ve said to you for years the real miracle of Christmas is not the birth of Christ; it’s the conception. It’s the ‘Word became flesh.’ God became flesh and dwelt among us. That’s the real miracle, and that’s the basis of what scholars and thinkers would call metaphysical reality.

“You see, the idea of what is reality in time and space . . . God, to make Himself known, didn’t come in a dream and in an ethereal, transcendental state that you kind of morph into in some la la land.

“When God wanted to make Himself tangible and real, He took upon Himself what? Time and space. He became flesh and that tells you that reality—the world in which you live right here—this is real! This is what reality is and you don’t have to go into some meditative otherness. This is it!

“Somebody says, ‘Well, what about heaven?’ I keep trying to show you (in Scripture) that heaven is real; it’s a part of creation. And the reality of life in heaven is a pattern after which life here is made. Heaven is real and knowable, and experientially you’ll experience it, and it won’t be like going to a foreign country, it’ll be like going home. It’ll be like being here in a real sense, but with sin apart.

“The metaphysical reality of life is that reality is real and here it is. You don’t have to wonder about who you are, and why you’re here, and what your purpose in life is and where you’re going unless you’re willfully ignorant. It’s not an enigma. The answer to all of that is in Jesus Christ.

“Who are you? You’re a part of humanity that God created for a purpose, and the Word of God tells you the purpose. As a child of god, a member of the Body of Christ, you’re a part of something God’s doing and you’re not having to look for something.

“Now, you might not like the way life is right now, but dreaming about some otherness out there in some Atlantis of the imagination isn’t how you get to reality, and it isn’t how you change reality.

“The way you change reality is you bring the Lord Jesus Christ Himself into your life, and into your reality, and into the details of your life, and you allow Him—His word, His mind, His thinking—to change your thinking about what’s real.

“We’re not talking about some altered state of consciousness here. I love that verse in I Corinthians I that says, ‘But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.’

“All the things you need—wisdom, righteousness, purpose and meaning, redemption, freedom and liberty—all those intangible things are made real in life because of who God has made you in His Son. You see it means something to say, ‘God was made flesh.’ That’s a statement about what reality is all about.

“This is not some Kierkegaardian leap into the blind darkness of quote-unquote ‘faith.’ There’s a historical reality. You could go into a court of law in any venue, and with all of the laws of authenticity that are required to prove that an event happened historically, and demonstrate historically, with legal evidences, that it’s a fact He died and rose again. And only willful ignorance wouldn’t believe that and acknowledge it because it’s a historic reality. That means God moves not just into time and space, but He moves into your life and into your history.

“But there’s more than just a historical reality, there’s a meaning to it because the gospel says, ‘Christ died for our sins.’ That’s the proposition of moral reality.

“It’s not just that we exist and that this is real existence—not just that there’s history we’re involved in—but that there’s a meaning and there are some standards that are bigger than us. There is some ultimate truth by which you’re going to be measured and that is what man doesn’t like.”

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Jordan continues, “Post-modernism, in essence, is the idea that, ‘All truth is relative and if you come up with something you believe is absolute, then you’re evil and dangerous because we know that all truth is relative. When you come up with something that’s unchangeable, you become an evil menace to all the rest of us who don’t agree with you.’

“The problem with that idea is that the dictum that ‘all truth is relative’ is an absolute, which if you can’t have an absolute, then you can’t have an absolute that you have no absolute! You get into this conundrum and you say, ‘Well, now what do you do?’ What you do is you recognize the futility of human reasoning.

“But where all that comes from is a struggle to get away from an absolute moral authority outside of yourself. You hear the politicians, you hear the theologians, you hear the thinkers, you hear the courts, you hear the all the rest talking today and trying to ferret out the problems, and you talk about the abortion issues, death penalty, poverty, racial issues, and all of it boils itself down to the fact that there’s a problem because there’s an assumption that there is no absolute moral standard.

“When we say, ‘Christ died for our sins,’ we’re saying there is a moral reality; that there is something to be measured by and that we have sin and have ‘come short of the glory of God.

“It’s what Francis Schaeffer called ‘The Christian Consensus.’ Our nation was not founded as a Christian nation in the sense that all of its founders were Christians, but our nation came into existence 200-plus years ago during a time when there was a Christian consensus among the culture even where the people were not Christians.

“Benjamin Franklin was not a Christian. He was a Deist, but that tells you something. A Deist believes there’s a God. They may not believe they know Him—they may not believe they’re going to follow Him—but they know there is an absolute standard.

“When they said, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator,’ they were not making a Genesis 1:1 statement, they were just saying there’s some culturally acceptable standards; there’s a consensus among us that some things are absolute and so obvious they can’t be ignored.

“People, the only absolute moral authority in all the universe is that Book right there. That’s the absolute moral authority of heaven and earth. ‘Thy word is truth.’ And the way a face is put on that is in the face of Jesus Christ.

“You know where your faith gets its identity? It’s in the persona of Jesus Christ. Your faith doesn’t need to rest in what you’re doing; it needs to rest in what He’s doing. Not in your strength and your abilities, but in His identity, His strength and His capacity.”