What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[abaris]

You have to put yourself back in their time to understand why they wrote things the way they did, and that's what I was telling Rhythm.  

That's understood. The book is nothing but a mirror of their society. But it goes to show that morals do change based on the society and the time in question. In our vast majority we don't take bronze age tribal standards as morals anymore. Some do, they're called literalists. But the same is true for the NT. If we would live by their standards, we would have a very different society and certainly not a better one.