Glitter My Words

Myth #9 Orthodox Protestants are moral realists. They hold to objective values, where the LDS are moral relativists.

Protestant Christians, as typified by Blogstream bloggers at “Dummies”, speak boldly in favor of objective values but are moral relativists in defining their Christian institutions and subsequently in their personal obligations as members.

Realists believe that there are objective, irreducible moral properties which are nonnegotiable and should be considered factual claims when applied to their Christian organizations. As factual claims, they can only be true or false. Their truth or falsity does not depend on one’s belief, feelings, or other attitudes towards the things that are evaluated.

The slide to moral relativism is to the extent where the moral rightness of a property must be approved of by society. The need for societal approval leads to the conclusion that different values are right for folks in different societies.

It is a matter of record that all Protestant Christian denominations statements of faith vary substantially from one culture to another within a denomination. And, in some cases, from one church to another within the same denomination within the same culture.

Thoughout the scriptures there has been an age old pattern that God set in place and He has sustained. Doctrine, as the Lord provides it, has always come by revelation through a Prophet. In every case this has been true as there has been but one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and father of us all.

Having the religious order as was originally prescribed by God and having objective, irreducible moral properties identical among all people, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) are moral realists.