Can something be right for one and not be right for another, particularly concerning family planning?

Q. Can something be right for one and not be right for another concerning Biblical matters, particularly concerning whether or not to let God control the number of children He send you?

A. The belief system in which one thinks that something might be right for one person and wrong for another is called spiritual and/or moral relativism.

The definition of relativism is: A theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.

Relativism is a very dangerous thought pattern that is fluent throughout our culture and now the Church. There are absolutes - in our culture through established laws, but especially in God's Word. The problem is that most Christians do not study intently on Scripture and truly search and search for their answers. The answers to our problems usually can be found in God's Word. One must be diligent in studying and applying Scripture, as well as questioning the traditions of others. The Bereans are an excellent example of listening to the opinion of others and then searching Scripture to see if it were so (Acts 17:11)!

"Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism....Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and 'swept along by every wind of teaching,' looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards."

"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires." Pope Benedict XVI