"Good" & "Bad" Christians?

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@Belaqua

Metaphors are like when Jesus said all that follow him will never hunger for food or be thirsty. Or when a man killing his own son for god is really a metaphor for the sacrifices we have to make in faith. But a Bible verse about how you're allowed to beat your slave, so long as they don't die for two dies after the beating... how is that a metaphor? How do Christians who don't take the Bible literally answer to that?

This is where the argument ends. There's no debate to be had here. While even early Christians may have had differing interpretations of the Bible, they, in general, took the Bible very literally. Now, Christians generally do not.

Christians have strayed from what Christianity used to be. Today's Christians are, by that logic, bad Christians.

There’s nothing metaphorical about the sort OT tribal or political instructions about how to treat slaves etc...

Christianity strayed considerably from OT practices, primarily because it didn’t see itself as a tribal religion, lacking much of any political interest at all, and as world religion, rather than that reserved for single ethnic or socioeconomic group.

But this is from conception, this is the way Christianity saw itself from the very beginning. But there’s difference between Christianity strayed from early Jewish practices, and Christianity strayed from Christianity, a claim which isn’t true, at least not according to the arguments you’ve made.