Ageless Morality or Outdated Context?

I just wanted to share this little monologue I wrote via private message with a Christian. I can get quite eloquent when I'm fired up. :)

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"You don’t get to have it both ways. You don’t get to argue that the Bible is inspired by ageless moral perfection and then insist that the 'difficult' passages of the Bible need to be understood through the context of things being 'different back then.' Either the morality in the Bible is ageless and perfect, or it ages because it is far from perfect.

Surely, a morally perfect, omniscient being would have had the foresight to realize that genocide, rape, and slavery might not look as good on His CV in 2024 as they did in Old Testament times.

And you know, perhaps things might not have been so different from modern times if the writers of the Bible had spent less time commanding the Jews not to eat shellfish or wear clothes of mixed fibers and instead wrote something as straightforward and commonsense as: 'Don’t treat women like chattels or spoils of war.'

Imagine that. Imagine if a morally perfect being had bothered to etch a little note in the margins somewhere, advising the Jewish people not to be so horribly misogynistic. So much suffering and torment could have been spared."

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