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100 Reasons to Believe New Testament History
5. Strict Relativism is Impossible
Presenting historical and archaeological evidences for a particular historic event is practically meaningless in our world today. Many people have been trained to believe that nothing can really be known for sure, especially historic events reported by others. Popular as this notion may be today, it is also self-refuting.
For example, those that claim that nothing can be known for sure are actually claiming something that they know for sure. This is an argument that commits suicide! Likewise, some argue that it is impossible to record history objectively because all historians are products of their times and worldviews. Yet to argue this way, the critic himself must report on past events (i.e. how past historians worked and what they were capable of) in an objective manor. If the critic's remarks about past historians' efforts are objective, then we may suppose that one can recount past events objectively, and his entire argument falls apart as self-refuting.