Excuse me, bubleeshaark, but you take Your Interpretation of the Bible to be the absolute authority, not the Bible itself. We all pick and choose what we want to emphasize in the Bible and what we want to deemphasize, and you are no exception. That is why Jesus said in Matthew 7, “‘Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgement you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, “Let me take the speck out of your eye”, while the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbour’s eye.'” Do you not realize that this means that no one can claim to know the mind of God, not even someone who claims to adhere to “the truth of the whole Bible”? This means that we are all to do the best we can, and to leave the judging to God. That’s why Jesus made the standard for our actions in life to be love rather than “the law.” As we act in love, and as we get feedback from those toward whom we seek to be loving as to whether they find that our actions are truly experienced by them as being loving, we will be doing the best we can in terms of showing love to God. That “feedback loop” is essential, because none of us can even know whether what we do is truly “loving,” or if it is actually “unloving,” without knowing how the object of our loving is being experienced. This, of course, is a sometimes frightening way to live, since we cannot be sure how our actions are being experienced until the one towards whom we are acting tells us that; but that’s why we need to trust that God – and, we hope, the object of our actions – is forgiving, since we will all make mistakes and, we hope, will learn from them, so that our future actions will be more likely to be pleasing to God and others. The more you try to rely on your own ideas of what the Bible says, and the less you rely on the “feedback loop” in terms of others’ experience of your actions, the less you are likely to please God or others, and the more you are likely to become self-righteous and please only yourself, while – because we are all like this – claiming that you are actually pleasing God. That’s why Jesus warns us, “Do not judge.” Take his warning to heart, friend!