TBF you could pick the passages that do good and right for your fellow people and not the ones that are terrible. They ignore stuff they disagree with or find inconvenient all the time. So it’s a choice that says a lot about them for them to ignore the line to treat the asylum seeker or migrant well, but choose to obey some interpretation that does others harm.

The Mosaic laws are really quite interesting. These verses can work in tandem with those in Leviticus 19. There later is the understanding of why we were given the Mosaic laws, just for Jesus to disagree with them a bit later, which is explained in Matthew 19:3-8. "

3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”

4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning."

Many of the things discussed in the Pentateuch (first 5 books of the Bible, where the Mosaic laws lie), are just about how to live their day to day lives, and at the time they had many slaves, something that they wouldn't be willing to change. Instead of this, God commands how to treat these slaves. The Old Testament is full of confusing stuff, but it certainly isn't just from "the Jew section of the Bible" as suggested in another comment. It has value, but they must be understood through a specific lens, understanding the lives of the people God is talking to.

I think most people assume the old testament is just stories like the new testament, but its full of legal technical stuff and obscure stuff like you quoted.

I think its chapter 2 or 3 that goes over how many animals you need to give to the church for what type of sin is committed. Like a list of fines.

Hello fellow former southern Baptist.

I hate to admit it took me way too long to realize the blatant hypocrisy.

Glad you made it out.

There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galations 3:28

damn it just keeps coming up! Its like this whole bible thing was really trying to get this whole 'dont be a dickhead' point home, shame its not working so well

That same section they always quote to hate on gay people

Yeah, the sequel retconned a bunch, but is actually more "love your neighbor" and way less violent than the original.

But the it has that weird Paul tangent that's just a collection of letters from a former Christian-hunter that changed sides where he gets really judgy about other Christians and he starts telling them how to act.

The artwork is giving off serious Asterix and Obeid vibes; do you know where it’s from?

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Ok, how about from the New Testament: "Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” - Mark 12:31

Any of it is. They've always cherry-picked.

Unless it reinforces their reactionary beliefs.

Yes, but God told them so it's okay.

If these "christians" could read, they'll be really upset.