Para. 24). Since it is considered a sin to break any of God's laws, conflicting supporters of absolutism note that one must ask for forgiveness once one chooses the lesser of two evils when making an ethical decision. To support this doctrine, followers say that God will always provide an escape route to prevent someone from sinning. One problem with this thinking is when an individual must lie to prevent the death of another individual, such as a loved one. Furthermore, with these guidelines, Jesus would not have been sinless and instead would have sinned. This action would promote that the Bible is not true and along with that would deny the word of God as absolute. The latest absolutism of deontology called gradual absolutism recognizes that there is moral conflict in the world we live in and that we should adhere to the highest moral law available to us. Geisler points out that there are three essential elements of gradual absolutism which are: there are higher and lower moral laws, there are inevitable moral conflicts, and no blame is placed for the inevitable (Geisler,