{"id":659,"date":"2014-10-06T22:03:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T03:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/?p=659"},"modified":"2015-03-10T16:54:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:54:40","slug":"the-truth-serumm-against-relativism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/the-truth-serumm-against-relativism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth SERUMM-Against Relativism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Clay Jones<\/p>\n

Today we constantly hear things like, \u201cThat\u2019s your truth,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s your reality,\u201d \u201cWho are you to judge?\u201d Sadly, this is a symptom of a thinking disease called relativism. Relativism is the belief that there is no absolute or objective moral truth. In short, the relativist believes that you have your truth and that I have my truth and that there is no truth with a capital T.1<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0So prevalent is this thinking disease that according to Barna\u00a0only one-third of adults believe in absolute [or objective] moral truth.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Of course, this disease isn\u2019t brand new. When Jesus told Pilate that He \u201ccame into the world to testify to the truth,\u201d Pilate retorted, \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d (John 18:37-38). Indeed, the Romans were syncretistic\u2014they had no problem accepting the worship of other gods. As Frances Schaffer has pointed out, the Romans didn\u2019t hate the Christians because they worshipped Jesus\u2014the Romans hated the Christians because the Christians would worship\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0Jesus.<\/p>\n

Similarly, today,\u00a0relativists\u00a0ignore those Christians-in-name-only who don\u2019t think Christianity any more true than any other religion. Relativists welcome these truthless Christians as their own. What irks the relativist is that true Christians argue that only Christianity is true and every other religion is false. That belief is not only unpopular, it has gotten tens of thousands of Christians killed over the centuries.<\/p>\n

This is important for our evangelism because if before we begin our witness we don\u2019t treat the disease of relativism, then they will hear our Gospel proclamation as no more than a \u201cthis is what works for me\u201d religion that in their minds is as truthless as a jelly fish is toothless.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the symptoms of relativism are obvious. Those in its grip spout things like, \u201cthat\u2019s your truth\u201d or \u201cwho are you to judge.\u201d When I encounter these folks\u2014which I have many times\u2014I give them what I have coined the Truth SERUMM.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Clay Jones Today we constantly hear things like, \u201cThat\u2019s your truth,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s your reality,\u201d \u201cWho are you to judge?\u201d Sadly, this is a symptom of a thinking disease called relativism. Relativism is the belief that there is no absolute or objective moral truth. In short, the relativist believes that you have your truth and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,270,272,306],"tags":[293,620,309,310,307,308],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics-en","category-epistemology","category-evil","category-relativism","tag-apologetics-en","tag-epistemology","tag-postmodernism","tag-racism","tag-relativism","tag-truth"],"views":174,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritasfidei.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}