existentialism slides inevitably to relativism, which then descends into nihilism. Nihilism denies the existence of any objective grounds for values or truth, and postmodernism is the modern philosopher’s white flag of surrender in his search for truth apart from God. But rather than admit that the secular enterprise of trying to arrive at truth while rejecting biblical authority is a failure, the postmodernist declares that there was no such thing as objective truth to find in the first place. Postmodernist