By George Grant - Posted at Florilegium:
Published January 19, 2026
“I believe firmly that all of truth is God’s truth.” R.C. SproulGod is truth (Exodus 34:6, John 14:6). In fact, truth is such an essential aspect of His character and nature that He is called by the name “Faithful and True” (Revelation 19:11). He is absolute verity, unaltered by the variable tides of time and circumstance (Numbers 23:19). The maker of all things in heaven and on earth, He furnishes His creation with evident truth (Psalm 19:1-6). He loves the truth (Jeremiah 10:10) and speaks the truth at all times and in all ways (Psalm 119:160). He is Himself the source of all truth, the essence of all truth, and the standard of all truth (1 John 5:6, 20-21).
Herman Bavinck declared, “God is the truth in its absolute fullness. He, therefore, is the primary, the original truth, the source of all truth, the truth in all truth. He is the ground of the truth—of the true being—of all things, of their knowability and conceivability, the ideal and archetype of all truth, of all ethical being, of all the rules and laws, in light of which the nature and manifestation of all things should be judged and on which they should be modeled. God is the source and origin of the knowledge of truth in all areas of life.”
Likewise, Keith Mathison asserted, “A God-centered view of truth demands that we affirm that all truth is God’s truth. That which is true is true because God said it, created it, or decreed it.”
According to the Belgic Confession God reveals truth in two ways: “First, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe; which is before our eyes as a most elegant book, wherein all creatures, great and small, are as so many characters leading us to contemplate the invisible things of God, namely His eternal power and Godhead, as the Apostle Paul saith (Romans 1:20). All which things are sufficient to convince men and leave them without excuse. Secondly, He makes Himself more clearly and fully known to us by His holy and divine Word; that is to say, as far as is necessary for us to know in this life, to His glory and our salvation.”
God’s unchanging truth is sure, certain, and objective and is displayed in either the natural revelation of His created order or the special revelation of His inspired Word. He animates these two conduits of truth so that we might know the truth and be set free. Every true thing in art, music, literature, history, philosophy, science, or technology is therefore a manifestation of His providential and infallible revelation.