(January 10, 2015 at 6:04 am)robvalue Wrote: I totally understand christians wanting to believe the bible somehow avoids condoning this issue, but sorry. The christian position of refusing to edit the book is coming to bite you in the arse.
If parts of it are just meant to be history and of no relevance today, then separate those parts. Have a bible, and then an appendix of "historical reference only".
That's my suggestion anyhow. Either it's all the word of God, taken as it reads, or it's a mish mash and there's no way to tell what's "God" and what's man making stuff up. Therefor, it's next to useless. If you really believe there is a God, then no man has the authority to decide what is and isn't "what God wants", old weird men with hats included.
The thing is, this is how you know god-given morality is false: even his own believers have moved on and upgraded to Morality 2.0, which has removed the slavery bug, automatically installs the Divorce Patch, and offers the Pedophilia Upgrade for priests with money to burn.
