point of reference that was eternally fixed and stable through history in order to overcome the self-deceptions that are inherent in a self-contained, self-dependent or human-dependent perspective. If human knowledge is limited to human experience, then all knowledge is relative. You have your experience and I have mine, and who’s to say that one is better or more right than another? If there is no dependable reference point outside of human experience and knowledge, then all knowledge is relative.
But if all knowledge is relative, if all knowledge is simply a matter of perspective, then nothing is truly or objectively knowable. In such a case knowledge does not reveal truth, but only perspective. If all knowledge is relative then everything depends on how you look at it. In such a system truth has no place. In such a system truth cannot have a consistent meaning and, therefore, is meaningless.
And this is exactly where our contemporary world is at. Relativism is the reigning doctrine that is taught in public schools and universities. People are taught today in these institutions that knowledge that is devoid of any reference to God or Scripture is the only knowledge that is reliable. Religion is understood today to be a matter of personal opinion, which means that objective knowledge must be purged of religion because personal opinion distorts objective knowledge. Thus, public schools and universities today pride themselves on the fact that they teach knowledge of the world without reference to God or Scripture. They think that they are teaching objective truth, that truth itself stands apart from God or apart from any reference to God or to Scripture.
What they don’t recognize is that they have elevated human knowledge, human