I know a man who operates his whole life on how he feels. One day he came in and made an announcement that he had accepted Christ at a meeting and he felt great and just knew he was saved because of how he felt. I talked with him a little later and tried to warn him that these feelings would fade and he would be required to live by faith not his feelings. Well, he just insisted that this would never go away, but 8 months later he told me he just didn�t feel the same way he did a few months ago and had decided that because he didn�t feel like he did before he just didn�t see any use in staying in the church, reading his bible, going to Sunday school, and a series of other things. I reminded him that this would happen and he needed to now live based on the supposed commitment he made, but he didn�t feel like it.
For many many centuries people have felt good about a lot of things like Nazism, Communism, humanism, and over 900 people felt good about going to Gyana South America with Jim Jones where they were all convinced to end their lives for a mad man.
The point is this, if truth is only relative, then feelings are the rule of the day. But if truth is absolute, then feelings can not be how we measure what is right and wrong. Right and wrong must be measured by a standard outside of and greater than our self otherwise there is no real truth to be depended upon because what is right for me may not be right for you. However, if truth is absolute, it does not matter what I feel. What matters is what is true no matter what you or I think or feel.
R.C. Sproul said it well, �man�s role as image bearer of God carries with it an awesome moral responsibility that can not be neutralized by a relative standard of goodness.�
I would suggest that when we remove God�s standard of law and love, as history bears out, the worst of man shows up. Think about it? Which produced more love, Adolph Hitler�s Nazism or Christ and Christianity? Because man is naturally sinful, he always turns what he does to something beneficial to himself instead of considering others first or even only. Out goal is truth, not feelings or relativism.