Galatians 3:10-14 The Curse of the Law

James Reed's FORGE

I don’t think I’d be too far off base if I told you that our culture has completely embraced what is called moral relativism. This philosophy states that whatever is right for you may or may not be right for me. If you’ve ever heard someone say, “I have to speak my truth,” they are referring to moral relativism. Relativism on the whole states that everything is relative, and depending upon the situation in which you find yourself, lying, cheating, stealing—even killing might be the right thing to do.

Allan Bloom indicated in his book The Closing of the American Mind, that 95% of students who graduate from high school and enter college are already convinced of the position of moral relativism. By the time they graduate from college, that number goes up to 98%.

While this may be a true statistic, I’m willing to suggest that if I wanted to break into their home and take their stuff, they would suddenly believe that I was absolutely wrong. If I took their wallet, I can guarantee they would call for justice. This is because we are all image bearers of our creator God, and He has put a moral law in all our hearts. We know without anyone telling us that it is better to love our neighbor than to kill our neighbor and take their stuff.

I heard a story about the professor who asked his class if there was any such thing as an absolute. A student replied, “There are no absolutes.” The professor then replied, “Are you absolutely sure of that statement?” Hopefully you can see that as soon as someone makes an absolute truth claim, they believe in an absolute. To state that there are no absolutes is an absolute truth claim and thus contradicts itself.

I bring this up for two reasons. First, God has given us moral absolutes—what He demands of us as humans. And second, Paul uses logic applied very simply over today’s text. Let’s see what Paul had to say.

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