Have you ever heard the statement ‘all truth is relative’? Have you ever thought about it? Have you ever tried to understand what it means? Is it true? I realize that most, if not all, people who read this blog understand that statement is not true. Truth is not relative. As Christians, we believe in absolute truth…the truth that is found in Jesus Christ. Anything that is true is true because God said it was. All truth is God’s truth. We understand that.
Now, let’s get back to that statement that we all have probably heard; ‘All truth is relative’. Those who use and hold to the teaching of this statement deny absolute truth. The problem is that this statement is actually in contradiction with itself. If all truth is relative and those who use that statement claim it to be true and absolute then that statement, of its own admission, isn’t always true. And since it must include itself, we can conclude that there are exceptions to it. The exception to that statement is that there can be and is absolute truth. All truth is not relative, by the statements own admission. So the fact is, the statement, ‘all truth is relative’ is in itself a relative statement.
Just some food for thought.
May 13, 2009 at 7:41 pm
That’s how we like them nice and confusing. The statement is always the same when you talk to people like this somethings are always wrong. But if something is always wrong then something must be right.
January 21, 2010 at 8:43 am
The statement “All Truth is relative” is similar to “everything is relative”.
If everything is relative then the statement itself is relative. If a statement about relativity is relative it can only be relative to something that is not relative …. that would be something absolute. Therefore the existence of absolutism is established. So if absolutism exists everything isn’t relative.