I’m not religious of the sort but i have done a lot of reading since my gay childhood friend married in the SDA church.
There are those who take the bible literally and it’s not supposed to be meant to be read that way. Jewish folks don’t read the torah literally.
For example, Rachel held evans has a fantastic book where she follows biblical teachings for women from the Old Testament. she found out from her jewish friend that proverbs 31 is nothing the sort of what evangelicals claim to be. Spoiler: it’s a song in the torah praising women for the work they do, not a list of things a perfect biblical woman should do.
I’m not religious of the sort but i have done a lot of reading since my gay childhood friend married in the SDA church.
There are those who take the bible literally and it’s not supposed to be meant to be read that way. Jewish folks don’t read the torah literally.
For example, Rachel held evans has a fantastic book where she follows biblical teachings for women from the Old Testament. she found out from her jewish friend that proverbs 31 is nothing the sort of what evangelicals claim to be. Spoiler: it’s a song in the torah praising women for the work they do, not a list of things a perfect biblical woman should do.
I fucking hate the church though.