Quote Originally Posted by Mooks View Post
So your actually advocating cherry picking? (Choosing the parts you like, ditching the parts you dont). Thats a riot, most people at least try to make it more subtle by saying to "focus on what Jesus said, he made it so the old testament doesnt need to be followed ", even though Jesus said the exact opposite.

Fundamentalist Christianity may not be the mainstream, but in the Bible Belt (Tulsa, Oklahoma) it certainly is.
Your statement implies Southern Baptism is "complete" Christianity, that rejecting some of those doctrines makes you "less Christian". That is by no means definitively so, conversely I could argue that fundamentalists cherry pick because they do not adhere to the Creeds, which predate the canonisation of the Bible by 50-70 years.

That denomination and it's ilk are neither the last word, nor representative. Nor is Jesus attitude to the Old Testemant simple or especially clear, particually in translation; what is explicit is that he rejected certain parts (eye for and eye, divorce etc.) Further, the denomination you refer to is known for a high level of litteralism in scripture and a low level of contrextuality.

If you want to attack my faith or my scholarship, feel free to open a dedicated thread for that purpose.