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Is Truth Relative?
Goal for this article:
A lot of people believe that something which is true for me is not true for you. So this object that I call a table, because I like to eat from it, you may call a chair because you like to sit on it.
People are drawn to this because it means nobody has to be wrong, and no one has to be punished for their sins. It is one of the core beliefs in Hinduism because it keeps people religiously tolerant and means less wars in India.
The scriptures define truth as things as they really are. In other words, no matter how you use that table, it is still a table!
Relativism is championed by agnostics and atheists and is very popular. Some Christian denominations try to promote it (many Episcopalians for example). For most Christian apologists, it is the major topic of their work, so there is a lot of material on it in books and on the web. The more aware we are of the sway to relativism, the better arguments we can form to help LDS youth strengthen their testimonies of the truth.