Truth According to Whom?

Have you wondered where truth is in our world? It seems to be a very difficult thing to find. If you think what you hear on the news is truth, you may be deceived because days, months or years down the road, we learn that what we heard was totally untrue. I would venture to say that truth is more difficult to find now than it was fifty years ago. When I was young, I thought everything I heard was truth and most of it turned out to be true. As time goes by and I have become older, I realize that very little of what I'm told, read or hear is truth. Most everything we allow into our minds has been altered by someone's opinion. Following are a few subjects that we hear nearly opposite opinions on; health issues, exercise, diet, child rearing, political issues, the president, the church. Now one at a time.
Health Issues. I recently "heard" a Christian commentator report that there is proof that when sacharin came on the market, the sugar industry designed a perfect remedy to protect their market. They fed sacharin to rats in such an exagerated way that the rats developed cancer cells. If they could prove sacharin was dangerous to one's health, they would protect the income from their product. Makes me wonder about the credibility of all the "studies" we hear about.
Exercise One need only to open two magazines to discover the promotion of opposite opinion on exercise. Should it be cardio, should it be weight lifting, should it be running, walking, etc? Today, one of my friends stopped by and told me we shouldn't do cardio exercises any longer because it makes us hungry and then we eat more than we should.
Diet We should eat meat for protein. We shouldn't eat meat because it rots in our stomach and causes disease. We should eat carbs because that is where our energy comes from We shouldn't eat carbs because that causes us eat too many calories which causes obesity. We shouldn't have fat. We need some fat.
Child Rearing Spanking is out and time outs are in. We should ground kids from the priviledges they enjoy. In order to be all around educated grown ups we need to provide our children with all the necessities of life; Baby Eisteins, lessons of all kinds from dance to soccer to musical instruments, video games systems, I-pods, cell phones, computers, cars, etc.....So to grow up a good kid, one need only take away one of the necessities of life from them to bring about good behavior and conform to a parent's will.
Political Issues We should encourage smaller government to allow the individual the opportunity to use his/her opportunities and intelligence to succeed. We should encourage larger government to give those that don't have what everyone else has the opportunity to let the government supply their needs.
The President He is the worst ever. Got us into this war and can't get us out. He is the best ever. He has a plan and knows a bunch more than you and I. We must trust his good judgement.
The Church The church should be more involved with society and faith based organizations can help cure the societal ills. The church should mind its own business and tend only to people's souls. Let the government take care of the societal ills. Church and State should be seperate.
Are you as tired as I of all the rhetoric? The only place I know to go for absolute truth is the Word of God. Then we still find difference of opinion in the interpretation of that Word. Makes me realize that language, yes, even English, is limited in expressing truth in any form. We are in a broken world, aren't we?