In his January 20, 2025 inaugural address, the 45th and 47th president of the United States said the following sentence: “With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.” President Trump used those two words, “common sense,” twice in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. He also used “common sense” twice in his speech in which he announced his run in 2016 after he famously came down the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015. I believe he uses the words “common sense,” because that’s language still allowable in the U. S. culture at large.
“Common sense” is not necessarily a scriptural teaching any more than “conventional wisdom.” God designed a life for men on earth according to His nature and will. He ordered that life in His Word. What God says in His Word is the truth. People very often talk about facts and lies, but they won’t use the word “truth” unless they say something like “your truth” or “my truth.”
The Word of God is “the truth.” The Apostle Paul in Romans 1:25 speaks about changing “the truth of God into a lie.” The Apostle John in his first epistle, 1:6, says, “If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.” God wants mankind, His creation, to know and believe the truth.
At one time, if someone said, “This is what God said, so it is the truth.” Someone cannot say he knows that anymore, even though He can. Since men can’t hear the truth, someone is left with “common sense” as the alternative, some of which is “the truth.” May we return to more than common sense – to the truth.
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