After Yoda died in ROTJ, Luke leaves Yoda’s hut and heads back towards his X-wing. Talking to R2, Luke tells the droid that he cannot go on alone. Moments later, the Force figure of Obi-Wan walks towards Luke.
More than a bit perturbed, Luke, asks him, “Why didn’t you tell me? You told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father.”
Obi-Wan deflects Luke’s question by telling him a story. “Your father was seduced by the dark side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed. So what I have told you was true, from a certain point of view.”
Luke is unconvinced and asks, “A certain point of view?”
Obi-Wan, starting to get philosophical, continues, “Luke, you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”
Luke found that statement difficult to believe, and we should as well. There is a movement today to deny absolute truth, yet the truth is the truth.
There are absolutes in life.
There is right and wrong.
Truth is discovered, not invented.
Truth is knowable.
Truth is unchanging.
When Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me,” He was making a statement of absolute truth.
When someone believes, and another denies Jesus is the way, the truth or the life, one of them is right, and one of them is wrong. They both cannot be correct. Truth is noncontradictory.
While we might remember and experience an event differently than someone else, we cannot lie like Obi-Wan did and claim that Vader betrayed and murdered Anakin.
Vader is Anakin and Anakin is Vader.
