Case 05 · Apologetic · The class
Relativism
What it claims, what it gets right, and where it collapses under its own weight.
8 claims · 20 exhibits · 24 objections answered
What this case argues
- Many people today say moral truth is relative, but they cannot live consistently as if it were.
- The Gospel of John presents Jesus identifying himself as the truth, not merely as someone who teaches it.
- Confident, mainstream scientific consensus has been badly wrong and then corrected by evidence.
- If objective moral duties are real, the best explanation is a moral source beyond human beings rather than personal taste, cultural agreement, or evolution.
- The statement that all truth is relative is itself an absolute claim, so relativism undercuts itself before the conversation starts.
- The popular idea that all religions are different paths up the same mountain does not hold, because the traditions describe different and contradictory summits.
- Because the world’s religions make contradictory claims, they cannot all be equally true, so “all religions lead to the same God” fails once the terms are defined.
- Calling Christianity “too exclusive” does not show it false, because truth by its nature excludes error and every worldview, including religious pluralism, draws boundaries.
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