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[kayre]

"'Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man,' Thomas Paine said. If the Bible teaches that God is love, and love can look like genocide and violence and rape, then love can look like... anything. It's as much an invitation to moral relativism as you'll find anywhere." -- Rachel Held Evans, Inspired

(Neither her answer nor mine is to throw the whole Bible out, by the way.)

Comments

[gingicat]

Sounds like a great way to start a Bible study class, actually.

[amaebi]

I think that your answer is something more like "Read the whole Bible and chew slowly"? Which is my answer for those who want to be in relationship with theBible, or with the divine or truth through the Bible.

[kayre]

Yup... and take off the plastic wrap, and lift up the top slice of bread to see what's in the sandwich.

[amaebi]

I love you. :D