RE: How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?
October 29, 2016 at 1:11 am
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2016 at 1:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 26, 2016 at 10:15 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Law comes from morality, at least philosophically speaking.-still wasting our time.
Quote:When push comes to shove, I actually identify as a contractualist (as opposed to Kantian ethics). In a nutshell, something is a moral rule only if no one has a legitimate objection to it, with objections needing to address why/why not someone's wellbeing is being violated. This mode of thinking captures the essence of debate, in which a conclusion is assumed once no one has a reasonable objection left to say. And if there's no objections, then to my mind it seems like that particular rule makes for a good law - something to be upheld globally.
-which has nothing to do with divine moral authority, and in fact if this were the moral setting schema it would prevent there from -being- a divine moral authority even if there were some example of divinity floating around...which there isn't.
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