Thoughts on this apologetic

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The thing is, there's no such thing as a true Christian. It's all entirely arbitrary. If someone calls themselves a Christian, then no one can say with any authority that they are not. They can give their opinion that they are a lousy Christian of course.

If a Christian says the bible is the word of God though, and says it should be followed as such, then they are almost certainly going to be a massive hypocrite. That's pretty unavoidable, because anyone living by biblical morality would be dead or in jail very fast.

Christians like the idea that the bible is the word of God, but whenever it's convenient it's also the fallible word of man and so on. There's no end of excuses why they only follow the bits they like. In the end, all they are doing is reinforcing their own values with righteousness. And in some tragic cases, taking on bad values they normally wouldn't in order to be considered a better Christian.

Not having to follow the OT is unsubstantiated, in my opinion. The NT makes this very clear, that the old law stands. The fact that everything contradicts itself just means you can't follow it all even if you wanted to. Even if it is the case that they can ignore the OT, it's an admission that God "got it all wrong" and had to learn how to be a better God. They'd never admit that of course.