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Even though relativism has been the target of much criticism for the past hundreds of years, it is right at the center of postmodern culture. The main reason that relativism has been criticized badly is that the major proponents of relativism have never fully understood or at least never clearly expressed the ultimate meaning of relativism. Most criticism at relativism has been from religious or traditionally conservative groups without any surprise to all of us. The main reason for those people to attack relativism is however because they have never truly understood the ultimate meaning of truth or absolute truth.
In fact, due to the limitation, especially language limitation of human beings, we have never been meant to be able to grasp the absolute truth with our human intellectual comprehension. All the truth we have learned or we could ever learn in the future has been or would be an approximation to the ultimate absolute truth. This ought to be particularly clear to those religious people who believe in God. By their faith they are not supposed to have any doubt about that only God would know the final or absolute truth. Ironically, instead of being proposing the relative comprehensive ability of human beings, religious groups with all faith background have been the strongest anti-relativism social forces.
I am not very familiar with scriptures of other religions, but I do know that the message that only God would know and control the final truth has been clearly delivered in the New Testament of the Holy Bible. Not very long ago I posted an article titles as “Jesus is the Truth” in this blog, which has got 80 something hits and several friendly comments. But I am quite unsure whether any reader of that article has sensed the extremely strong relativistic tone in that article. In fact, that article could serve as a declaration of a full relativism for Christians that we human beings could never master or learn by any means the final or absolute truth, not even by reading the Bible which was written in human language.
People might ask, “how can we deny what happened to be truth?” Well, we should not. The issue is not whether what happened was truth or not, the issue is whether we could know the whole picture of what happened, what is happening, and what will happen. The critical meaning that God is the Truth is that God can change any of the natural laws that we have learned or we would learn by our natural means, just like in the miracles Jesus did as recorded in the New Testament of the Holy Bible…..
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Posted by murongqingcao on 2009-04-08 12:27:14 | Rating: | Views: 48
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