Can you read a book like, The Count of Monte Cristo or Gone With the Wind, judging them and what they are all about with the values of today's society? No, we cannot. For these works are about the era in which they are set in. To try and force a "politically correct" ideology from either of them would destroy the sublime beauty and message that each contains.
In a similar way, we need to guard against reading the Old Testament as a Christianized account of ancient history and forget the society that produced it and from which we are given a truly Divine message.
But, how do we do that? What is the central theme that runs through the Bible like a scarlet thread?
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