The Scroll | The Weight of Truth

Why Essence, Precision, Shared Perspective, and Faith Matter

Truth is not opinion refined by consensus. It is reality revealed by God.
In a culture that trades conviction for comfort, the greatest danger is not outright deception—it’s distortion.

When truth loses its essence, it becomes hollow. When it loses precision, it becomes blurry. And when it loses shared perspective, it becomes isolated—trapped inside personal experience instead of anchored in divine reality.

The Modern Problem: Truth as Opinion

The problem with today is that truth is received as opinion to be able to escape unbiased judgment. Why is that?
We can attribute that to the heart of man—full of pride, full of sinful passions and desires.

Look at King Saul. He was a man of the people. Yet, when confronted, he evaded responsibility and hunted down Samuel for it.
In contrast, David, when confronted for his sins, did not avoid accountability but ran in secret and bowed his face to the floor, crying out to God for forgiveness.

That’s the difference between the proud and the humble: one bends truth to protect his image; the other breaks before truth to be restored by it.

The Cultural Decay of Truth

One of the most dangerous things we see today in culture is people taking self-evident truths and replacing them with subjective opinions.
What used to be science-based, history-based, fact-based—society has twisted to fit its own standards.

The same corruption has entered the Church. There is an epidemic known as eisegesis—the subjective interpretation of Scripture that disregards the author’s intent in support of a personal narrative.

We must return to truth in its purest form.
And the author of truth is the Lord Almighty God—His Son is the physical evidence of truth personified.

1. The Essence of Truth

Truth has a nature. It’s not simply “what’s right” in a moral sense, but what is real according to God.
The essence of truth is its unchangeable origin—it doesn’t bend to the age, trend, or crowd. When we strip away filters and assumptions, truth remains: eternal, self-authenticating, and alive.

The essence of truth is that it’s unbendable too—not malleable to individual perspective. Though we can call out what we see, truth itself exists in a higher form of reality that only God can see as what the facts truly are.

Jesus didn’t just speak truth—He was truth. Every word He spoke revealed the essence of the eternal Word—not flexible, not fashionable, but absolute.

2. The Precision of Truth

Precision matters because the enemy thrives in vagueness.
Half-truths create whole deceptions. A single word out of place can turn obedience into compromise.
In the Garden, Satan didn’t invent a new doctrine. He merely distorted what God had said and injected his narrative to change the story.

Precision demands discipline. It requires us to separate what sounds right from what is right. Every generation must carry this responsibility: to handle the Word with accuracy, not assumption.

But precision also demands reflection and deep analysis. One of the greatest issues individuals face against a decadent society is deliberation.
Not paranoia—but a healthy measure of skepticism that verifies what is said, pursues clarity, and avoids confusion.

God is a clear-cut Being who speaks precisely—to a person, a people, a nation; even to a situation, an event, or a crisis.
Though He stands outside of time, He is always present to speak a word of truth with precision—and that word outlasts us all.

3. The Shared Perspective of Truth

Truth isn’t private property.
It was never meant to live inside one mind, one voice, or one denomination.
It was meant to be shared—not as opinion, but as revelation confirmed in the Body.

When truth is shared, it multiplies clarity. When it’s hoarded, it breeds error. The early Church stayed aligned because they “continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching.” Their unity was not emotional—it was doctrinal.

We don’t need new truth. We need renewed perspective on the truth already given.

One of the most beautiful things about truth is that it is so wide, and positioned so high, that many can see it and come to agree.
Though that’s not the case for everyone in the world, we do see moments where people come together in unity and agreement around what is true.

But Jesus painted this masterfully when He said, “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be those of his own household” (Matthew 10:34-36; Luke 12:51-53).

Truth draws a line.
It divides false unity from real faith.
And only those who love truth more than comfort will stand on the right side of that line.

4. The Issue of Faith

If we are called to pursue and be faithful to the truth, then what about the things we don’t fully understand—but that we know God has said?

Then it becomes a twofold journey:
First, to trust what we heard God say and walk in it, even when we don’t see the full picture.
Second, to ask questions and pursue the answers, seeking understanding and comprehension in Christ.

God encourages asking questions. He invites us to pursue Him for understanding.
Jeremiah recorded the Lord’s words: “Cry out to Me, and I will answer you, and I will show you great and hidden things.” That invitation has never expired.

Jesus—the One sent by God—did not come only to die for mankind, but to teach mankind God’s ways when the world was lost in its own interpretations.
Many came to Him asking questions about the truth of the Law, and He never rejected the sincere seeker.

Faith doesn’t ignore reason—it anchors it.
We don’t follow God blindly; we follow Him faithfully.
Understanding may come later, but obedience is required now.

True faith stands between what is spoken and what is revealed, trusting that the God of truth cannot lie.

The Takeaway

Essence keeps truth alive.
Precision keeps truth pure.
Shared perspective keeps truth grounded.
Faith keeps truth active.

When all four align, deception loses power, and the Church regains its voice.

Truth isn’t just what we say. It’s what we stand on—and what we stand for.

Written by Luxin Amicus
Truth & Remnant™ | The Scroll