Cheers domokunrox, my reading list is a little packed at the moment and the youtube links are 4hrs+, I'll have a look into your suggestions but taking a cursory glance I am familiar with many of the arguments especially those of William Lane Craig. In short my opinion is that Christianity and the Bible has some degree of truth as do many, if not all, other religions.
I appreciate that mathematics rests upon the principle of contradiction but I tend towards the opinion that mathematics is a human creation and not discovered. I disagree with the notion that philosophy is impossible without complete adherence to the principle of contradiction. Aristotle and Plato say that Heraclitus and others did not hold to the principle of contradiction, this does not stop these figures from being classed as philosophers or demand a complete rejection of their philosophy. I've long had an interest in Eastern philosophy which also has a history of viewing the principle of contradiction not as something beyond question. The teachings of Dogen's soto school and the Hindu ideas of dual monoism reaching back to Shankara would be good examples. Recently I came across the Christian philosopher Nicolas of Cusa did not hold to it absolutely and more recently philosophers such as Hegel, Cunze and Camus. The work of Hegel in particular looks to be something that is going to take time to investigate.
As far as I'm aware there is some sort of Unitarian presence in the UK but I've never paid them much attention to be honest.
domokunrox wrote:The truth claim has nothing to do with the nature of its "roundness". The nature of that is trivial at best.
Trivial to you perhaps, I beg to differ.
The Clete Hux video you suggested highlights the issue for me, to
quote him:
Every spirit, or teaching, or doctrine that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. Translation: Every teaching, every doctrine every spirit that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh is from God. Now, he says in every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God any teaching any spirit any doctrine that says that Jesus Christ is not God in the flesh is not from God and this is the spirit of the antichrist......
Not just the dismissal of anything that does not agree with one's worldview but the active demonisation of anything which does not affirm it. It's beyond me. I enjoy reading the works of the great religious teachers that have appeared throughout our history but the idea that Christian theologians, at the exclusion of all else, are in sole possession of the truth just seems indefensible to me. By this token one must dismiss the teachings of those who introduced us to the principle of contradiction.