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

[vorlon13]

As for my sensitivity to scripture cherry picking;

I've encountered quite a few religious folks since getting out of high school and coming out as gay.  So from the 70s on I've heard Leviticus and some other books of the Bible used to justify all manner of draconian solutions to the gay question in America.  I'm old enough to remember "Kill a queer for Christ" t-shirts and the Anita Bryant Save Our Children groups openly calling for concentration camps.

Well, just in Leviticus, there are over 600 of those rules, and for some reason, they almost all are universally ignored except the paltry few on the men lying with men ones.


So, yeah, I'm wondering why it's any of Leviticus instead of all of it.  And the answer ALWAYS comes down to it's some person deciding on the selective fucking enforcement. Well, any person deciding operative vs inoperative parts of the bible better have some kind of blazing proof he is so authorized.  God can carve his name in big letters on the moon for all of us to see, or something equally convincing.


An then if that proof is lacking, the default is going to be all of Leviticus applying to all of the faithful all of the time everywhere.

Problem is that the bible declares that we are no longer the law presented in Leviticus.

Then why aren't the moral majority types up to speed on that ?

Like I said, invoking one of 600 Levitican strictures, the one  against the gay people makes me wonder why then ALL the laws of Leviticus aren't similarly active.  It's very convenient that there is this INCREDIBLE coincidence the only law in Leviticus that is still in effect 2000 years after Jesus is the one against the gays.  Is there a New Testament bible verse that spells that out ??

Invoke one, just one of those laws in Leviticus, then they all otta be in play.  The only thing the christers have is some PERSON in their organization, decided on their own, that they were duly authorized by God Almighty to pick and choose which ones are still worth enforcing to deprive other people their rights, and which ones the flock can safely ignore since oh my God, it would be SO INCONVENIENT to have to follow the rest of them ourselves!