A comment was posted last week regarding my 6/5/09 post,The Church Abandoned Christ – Should We Abandon The Church? It raised an interesting issue, although not one I would have predicted. So I thought his comment warrented a broader discussion and decided to copy most of my response here.
At its heart, the comment asks how much, if any, of our social and political values we can read into the scriptures. Since we all have our preferred views on these matters, sometimes very strongly held, it’s easy for us to have a strong bias which we can then read into scripture.