"Cut and paste" Christianity

[Eilonnwy]

[*]Jesus did away with the Old Law.

If they knew their Bible, Jesus supported the Old Testament and said he was not there to erase the laws of the Old Testament. (And funny how Christians who support this belief, still insist on the Ten Commandments. )

[*]That was not meant to be taken literally.[/list]

That is a great debate of many many stories. Some argue the same for Creation. Regardless of whether a story is meant to be taken literally or not, many still have certain "morals" they espouse that I would say are less than moral.

To be honest, I'm not sure the thing about Lot and the angel-rape is ignored or "cut out". Isn't that story a testament to the debauchery of Sodom's inhabitants? Similarly, isn't the story of Lot's daughters a cautionary one?

By this logic, would you call To Kill a Mockingbird and immoral book because it has racism and rape in it?

To Kill a Mockingbird is not espoused as the source of all morality and the Word of God, so no.

Besides, the story is very clear. It was not okay to rape the angels, but it was okay to rape the daughters.