The country folks I grew up with said, "You can prove anything by the Bible." They were 99% right.
There is only one rule of hermeneutics: No Christian allows the Bible when speaking as the authoritative Word of God for today to teach anything he or she knows or believes strongly (for whatever reasons) to be either untrue or immoral.
A thorough study reveals that 97.3459% of the time the Bible functions as a mirror in which the interpreter finds the Bible to teach what that interpreter believes. I made the study myself listening to Bible-believing people for the last 70 years.
To ask, What would Jesus do? is the same as asking what conclusion do I reach when I appeal to my highest ideals.
If is often true that the higher the authority attributed to Scripture, the more perverse the ethics that result.
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