How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?

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[quote='FallentoReason' pid='1429376' dateline='1477724812']

Moving the goalposts.

You've correctly identified why you're wasting our time, by discussing law when we were trying to arrive at some conclusion regarding morality, yes.  Congratulations?

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Err... why? If something has no valid objection to it, then it must be perfectly logical. If something abstract is perfectly logical, then it's akin to physical laws etc, ergo it could be a moral law set in place by a god.

Oh, is that what makes something logical?  Gee, and here I was thinking that to be logical something had to adhere to a certain set of rules.
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It's the same thing. Something not having a valid objection to it must be damn close to *being* the actual abstract rule that the universe goes by. Science, remember?

 Good to get that out of the way, helps to explain your posting habits somewhat.  You think that as long as a turd floats, it's perfectly logical, and that being perfectly logical is somehow akin to a physical law, and further, that said something could then be a moral law......further still, set in place by a god.  

It's a little harsh to describe science as a turd, but sure, the turds that Newton was able to float seem to be how the universe works. 

As for the link to god, well, if everything exists as a result of it, then 'it' must be akin to abstract truth, since 'it' decided what scientific turds would float.

The reason that such a moral setting schema rules out a divine moral authority, is that there -is- no authority if the metrics are simply what turds a person can float (or, more likely, pretend to have floated).  Any person.  It's anathema to the very meaning of the term authority, divine or otherwise.

This god in some ways set the density of the water in which we float our turds. If that turd of a theory is actually just pure shit such that it doesn't float scientifically or otherwise, then there will always be falsifiable ways to show that, and such is how density works to float certain turds and ground shit theories.


EDIT: I've made a mess of quotes yet again. Apologies.