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Did you ever stone an unbeliever? Deuteronomy 13: 5-11. If you haven't done so, you haven't done your duty to your lord. That is a direct commandment.
Did you ever kill a Pagan, Asatruar, Druid, Bard, Ovate, or Heathen? If not, you haven't done your duty to your lord. Exodus 22:18 Suffer not a witch to live.
When Christians will start doing that, then I'll let them also call homosexuality an abomination. Until then, I think it's inappropriate to pick and choose whatever one wants in the Bible.
Did you ever kill a Pagan, Asatruar, Druid, Bard, Ovate, or Heathen? If not, you haven't done your duty to your lord. Exodus 22:18 Suffer not a witch to live.
When Christians will start doing that, then I'll let them also call homosexuality an abomination. Until then, I think it's inappropriate to pick and choose whatever one wants in the Bible.
You've pointed out that Christians don't, but do you have any idea as to why? You seem to be crediting laziness or hypocrisy.
I could understand that because in the time, there were no words for mammal, the scientific classification of animals didn't exist, translation for cud is difficult, yadda yadda yadda. I just don't get why people who become pedantic about 'kinds' in the bible and invent baraminology are so vague about these issues, as though they are selectively choosing what is to be taken seriously and what isn't.
I'm just thinking that if the Bible were the inerrant word of God, then we shouldn't be having all these issues. One doesn't need to correct the mistake to understand the point, but wouldn't one think that a perfect being would divinely inspire translations of his holy book to ensure the message doesn't get corrupted down throughout the ages?
There is no mistake in the Bible that you need to correct, but there is a flaw in your thinking. That's the whole point. You conform your mind to understand the Bible, you don't change the Bible to suit whatever you like. That's the difference between honest and dishonest interpretation.
It doesn't exclude the possibility of there being a Bigfoot either. I'm not looking for something that would exclude God from the equation, I'm looking for something that would tell us unequivocally and without reserves that this could not have come about without God. I've been looking for three years so far (which admittedly isn't much) but I haven't come across anything that would support this position yet.
You'll never get it, but don't stop looking. The journey is important.