Moral relativists claim that there is no need for God-given
values and beliefs, and that we are capable of forming own values and consensus,
even if they are just evolving values:
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“Human imagination and consensus do in fact
yield norms that affect behaviour. For those norms to work, it is not necessary
for actual, literal lines independent of our heads to exist as a feature of the
landscape. If one insists that human imagination and consensus are not enough,
one is rationally obligated to show why they are not.”
I responded:
“Admittedly, humanly created values can yield a temporary
consensus. However, this consensus will only be maintained as long as our
cost/benefit analyses coincide, as long as both parties feel that they are
benefitting from the consensus.
In contrast, the Christian is committed to honoring,
respecting, and seeking the welfare of the other, not simply because they are
deriving some direct benefit or immediate emotional payoff but ALSO because
they believe in the correctness of what they are doing.
We are now living in a perilous age in which the consensus
is quickly dissolving. The various parties do not see any overriding advantage
in civility, love, and a commitment to transcendent values. Instead, each
interest group wants their own distinctive benefits and will destroy the other
parties in order to get them.
How do we resist the fears and temporal desires that have
taken us captive? Only by valuing the Transcendent above our immediate safety
and comforts!”
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