Moral Relativism

A current popular worldview is Moral Relativism. In the worldview, propositions about the nature of reality are not simply true or false. What we believe depends on the cultural, social, and linguistic contexts of the particular situation in question. In other words, truth is relative. What's true for one person may not be true for another. What's true in one location may not be true in another. And what's true today may not be true tomorrow. Relativism doesn't necessarily rule out the existence of God, but it doesn't establish God as an objective reality. Because truth is relative, belief in God and the supernatural is relative. The relativistic framework doesn't include the objective, transcendent God who created humanity in His image and who exists apart from His creation. In this worldview, God is who or what we want Him to be. Does relativism correspond with reality? That is an interesting question because in this framework, reality is subjective. There's no such thing as objective truth. The problem is that in saying that all truth is relative, the relativist is making an objective statement, (in philosophical terms, that means the argument about all truth being relative is self-refuting). The other problem is that when push comes to shove, two people with alternate views or perceptions of something that is real - let's say a car sitting in a parking lot-will ultimately agree that the car belongs to the person to whom it's registered rather than the person who wants to steal it.


(from the book Evidence for Faith by Bickel and Jantz)