Editing the Truth

 

 

What a peculiar title

Is “Editing the Truth”!

This one I really have to tell you

Is through the roof.

 

Can the truth be edited

As the title assumes

And who is capable of editing it

If this is your tune?

 

You avid churchgoers

Will frown on this

Because you have truth editors

On your list.

 

You admire them

And you adored them

And your acceptance and approval

Excuse their problem.

 

Many truth-editors

Ascend church pulpits

And preaching another gospel

Is their habit.

 

They oft alter the truth

To suit their agenda

And browbeat their congregants

To meekly surrender.

 

They add to the truth

And subtract from it too

And they multiply it and divide it

Before they are through.

 

Faith plus works

And grace plus merit

And Jesus could never be God;

To some, a cleric.

 

More than one way

To get to God

In fact, there are many ways

Says King Fraud.

 

What a fragile truth

That we need to edit!

And if we are biblically astute

There’s no limit.

 

For only the brilliant

Can see truth’s fragility,

For it’s an everchanging truth

Invariably.

 

Unto another gospel

Which is not another

So that if you are about to change

Don’t even bother.

 

He who edits the truth

Knows not the truth

And the truth he attempts to edit

Is its own proof.

 

The truth stands firm

And will not pass away,

Absolutely no editing is required

For God holds sway.

Stewart Russell © October 18, 2025