To the extent that what I said above is true, isn't it right that to come to a coherent set of beliefs about morality, musn't a Christian today cherry pick which biblical principles he will choose to believe in, and which he will not?
In the previous post's comments, I propsoed a question about stoning one's wife. I wasn't grandstanding, I aksed specifically because cherry picking is one of the principle problems with bad science -- in other words performing an experiment, but only choosing the data which confirms a theory the experimenter came in wishing to validate.
The bible would exhort you to stone your wife should she cheat on you, while at the same time proposing that you should love thy neighbor as yourself. I would imagine you reject the former and accept the latter, not because one is more clearly from the pen of God, but because it is more in line with the ethical position you already held. And so if your value system has come from a source other than the bible, from where has it sprung?
Now I know you have asked us to consider "Christianity" and not "The Bible" specifically, but the Bible, after all, *is* the foundational text from which Christianity, even today, purports to take its moral readings.
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