Relativism is the idea that the truth changes depending on the person or the culture doing the evaluating, and it’s the most extreme version of and also the perfectly logical extension of rejecting the idea that God determines right or wrong in a way that is binding on everyone. In response, Christians generally espouse something called objectivism, realism, or absolutism. But have we gone too far in our reaction to an error and created another error of our own? Does the situation ever matter? Does the person in the situation ever matter? Or are the rules the same for everybody in all situations?
Monday, August 18, 2008
Ethics: Are Christians Relativists?
Relativism is the idea that the truth changes depending on the person or the culture doing the evaluating, and it’s the most extreme version of and also the perfectly logical extension of rejecting the idea that God determines right or wrong in a way that is binding on everyone. In response, Christians generally espouse something called objectivism, realism, or absolutism. But have we gone too far in our reaction to an error and created another error of our own? Does the situation ever matter? Does the person in the situation ever matter? Or are the rules the same for everybody in all situations?
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