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If you believe that your (perfect) God has inspired the Bible, you'd say that you cannot throw out some of the rules just because you don't like them. You really should follow them all. But is this even possible given the hundreds of contradictions in the Bible?
Didnt jesus kinda slap the "just love eachother as yourself" onto the 10 commandments. Like still follow the rule just it's a lot less harsh in tone.
Plus I'm pretty sure if jesus came back he'd be chilling with some white claws and the occasional huffing of weed, spouting some inspiration of the soul.
No it's not possible to follow it in todays modern society and that is a good thing. We are not as closed minded as people were back then and we have better knowledge of how things work. It's very hypocritical of extreme christians to throw certain rules out because it's no longer relevant, but claim other rules should still be followed just because they personally think so. It doesn't make any sense. Extremely religious people are always very egotistical and want to feel powerful and superior to people they call sinners and threaten will go to hell, that is all it's really about. You can be a christian though in the sense that you believe in a higher power that you call God and you believe that Jesus was real (which likely he was although the bible greatly exaggerates the tales about his life obviously) but it's really not possible to follow every rule in the bible. Now i've never read the entire bible but i'm sure it has some good messages in it but overall it's fiction and myth. It's not like God actually wrote it or even Jesus himself, multiple different people wrote long after Jesus' time on earth and at that point the stories about his life and work had been spread so much one can only imagine how many new details people had added to make it all sound more exciting. It's crazy that anyone in this day and age takes it seriously as anything but an interesting book about history and how people were back then.
I agree completely. I'm agnostic because of lack faith (lying to a god is pointless) but I still try to do good as even if theres no afterlife the point of being a human is to give a better tomorrow to the next generation.
I think trying to do good is vague enough to where most people will end up in heaven. Killing one another because of faith is ridiculous.
A lot of Christians just read the Bible figuratively. As an allegory, or a cautionary tale. The Bible is not meant to be taken literally. It has layers and multiple meanings.
Christianity is not a rule-following religion in the way some others are. You get to know the God of Jesus Christ through the Bible as a collection of sources (as well as through his people and your experiences of the Holy Spirit, but I digress). The religion is knowing God and acting in sync with the priorities that the rules reveal God has.
Most of the texts in the Bible were not even written by people who called themselves Christians and nor were the rules addressed to Christian communities in the first instance (because they didn't exist at that time).
The key to reading the texts as a Christian (and here I'm talking about the Old Testament ones especially) is to read them almost as history sources and look behind the rules and ask: 'Which civilization and people was this rule written for, why was it written, what was the guiding principle behind it and how can that inform what I do in the here and now?'. When you think like that, you don't end up following the rules as a law (although some of them, like 'you will not murder', are really best just being followed). Instead, you use them try to understand what sorts of things God likes and dislikes, and you make your choices about how you act. You might find that two completely contradictory rules in the Bible, written in different places and times, are meant to bring about the same thing 😉.
If you believe in the rule of law, then why didn't you call the cops on that dude you saw driving down that pedestrianised road the other day?