There are views of God which are logically inconsistent - They simply can't be true because they are self-contradictory. One doesn't have to be an 'authority' to point this out - it is simply self-evident.
So self-evident that there are plenty of people from a huge range of backgrounds and walks of life who would disagree with you, Martin.
Being ruled by a book like the Bible is far less consistent than being ruled by what we feel in our hearts to be wholesome and true.
I'd love to agree with you, Martin, but I'm afraid that my experience as a teacher, bond officer for a housing charity, and as a friend - and in various parts of the world - tells me that what 'we feel in our hearts to be wholesome and true' is SO different for different people, depending on the situation prevailing at the time, the wider global or national situation, etc.
Think, for instance, of this scenario. I know that you regard the BNP as despicable - in fact most of us here do. Yet, there is no doubting that they feel that what they believe is 'wholesome and true'. So, is there a hierarchy of truth and wholesomeness, depending on what you believe or feel? Surely, it is far better to have written standard by which 'truth and wholeness' is measured? Isn't this precisely what the body of British law - in fact any body of law - seeks to be?
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