DISQUS

Adventist Wheel: http://reinventingsdawheel.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-poll.html

  • Georgia Grown · 2 years ago
    Would love to participate in this poll, but without common definitions of "absolute moral truth" and "relative truth", we could be thinking VERY differently and about VERY different concepts with the VERY same labels.
  • Chad Stuart · 2 years ago
    This poll needs to give us more options. I believe that there is "one truth" and that moral truth is absolute and unchanging; however I think that the judgment associated with moral truth adjusts based on an a individuals situation. For instance in Africa if a man has more than one wife and becomes a Christian, some churches, I believe even the SDA church are letting that man keep his extra wives, because if he were to cast them aside they would have nothing and their lives would be ruined. I believe here is a situation where the moral truth of 1 wife 1 man still is absolute, but that God takes into account as should we as humans that the moral law is not judged with a negative. Did that make sense?
  • Marcel · 2 years ago
    Harold and Chad,

    Good observations. For the sake of this poll, a particular moral statement being true (or false), is congruent with your own fundamental/foundational beliefs as a Christian, regardless of liberal/conservative polarities. However, in Chad's example, some moral statements seem to be true to some people and false to others depending on the context and place we live.

  • Sven · 2 years ago
    I thought the same thing as Chad when I read the poll options. Moral truth is absolute, but our understanding of it is limited and therefore relative - which does not mean that we cannot reach useable approximations of it which can also be defended with biblical or logical arguments.
  • Brad · 2 years ago
    Isn't it interesting how Christians think morality and their beliefs are synonymous. When you start trying to reconcile some of the acts of God and man's morality, I'm sorry, it's creates self-rightous bigots who think they know God. What part of your maggot-minded brain thinks you can claim to know absolute truth? The best we have is born from great thinkers and literature, not the Bible for heavens sake, the farthest thing from a bastion of morality. Morality is not Christianity, or if it is, Socrates is our saviour. Nothing is absolute. We simply try to do our best at living a good life without causing harm to others. We all make mistakes and learn from them.