Reply #40: God says [View All]

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Malachi 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not

Now it does not sound as if you are an inerrantist. Thus flogging the flaws of the bible will not gain any ground (incidently it wouldn't gain any ground with an inerrantist either). But the issue is that so many people suffer because of some other people's personal choices rationalized on the back of this book. Their interpretation is just as personal as the most relativistic moralists ever was. The difference being that the relativist does not believe they have the right to force their interpretation of morality on another.

The greatest advance of civilization in the last 1000 years was the realization that we the people have to struggle together to determine what is right and wrong for us. There are those that still cling to the notion that their truth must dominate and will not abide the rest. Modern society must abide them but it must also find a way to bring them back into the fold in a way that they realize that they cannot define morality on their own in our society.