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

[Chad32]

Yeah, I know a lot of old testament stories are "just so" stories that explain why things happen. Why are we afraid of snakes? Why is childbirth painful? Why do floods happen? Why do different cultures speak different languages? It's just that some people do take these literally, and if you don't then it just becomes a storybook like any other. Legends and laws that fit the current cultures at the time. Rarely factual, but supposedly the basis of divine worship.

The old testament/torah was written a thousand years before christianity, and honestly as big a habit as christianity had with incorporating other cultural beliefs into it, I wouldn't be surprised if people just started saying Jesus was the son of Yahweh in the hopes that it would convert jews. That would explain why many hated jews so much, despite that his death was the whole point of his birth.

Science gives us a better understanding of the univers, and the more it finds out, the more people realize that the supernatural is likely fake. Lighting doesn't come from gods throwing bolts from the sky. Volcanoes don't erupt because the great fire spirit is angry. Yahweh does not have a throne on top of the firmament of the world. You can claim Yahweh, or Vishnu, or anyone else created the universe, but you can't prove it. It has noting to do with the scientific method.