(September 5, 2015 at 4:13 pm)ScepticOrganism Wrote: If you claim it for the what, you have to accept it for the more. If there are "good bits" in the bible or any of such books, you are under the intellectual obligation of admitting the wrong bits in it as well.
I think it tends to be the evangelicals and born-agains in the protestant branch of xtianity who insist on reading the bible like a lawyer. As a book of stories it is reasonable to disagree about the best interpretation and point of the stories. Whether and how much is based on historical figures needn't even come up.