Okay NOW I have a question
@tamarlover
Just the one question though because I think the answer will be hilarious. Don't get any ideas. You stated: Why do you believe quoting biblical scripture is proof of the righteousness of your behavior, yet do admit you do not fundamentally believe in Christian God's almighty wisdom as creator? How can you cite the bible to justify things when you don't believe the word of very god the religion is based on or are even , in fact, a christian or catholic? This god is very clear that he alone can cast judgments, for instance. He is also very clear about coveting thy neighbors wife as minor examples of basic scripture you do not follow, yet you cite obscure passages to prove your points. How do you explain this apparent hypocrisy?
Here's your answer.
The Bible is a collection of information. In its original form, part of it was spoken by God, but a large portion of it was written by man and man's own ideas. So when its man's ideas, its someone's opinion or perspective, not necessarily fact. Then there is the issue of change over time in the copies. Scribal alterations, and translation issues can really alter the meaning of passages. So we must have a standard higher than the Bible if we are to be safe and make valid applications in our lives. If we blindly believe whatever the Bible says, that's a logical fallacy. Called the appeal to authority fallacy. I believe in the almighty wisdom of the Almighty God, but I think that this God is largely absent and prefers to be that way, only getting involved if absolutely necessary to accomplish his ultimate purposes. otherwise he would much rather us do things on our own and figure things out. So he gave us some guidance and then the rest is up to us to try and be the best we can be with what we've been given. I'm not going to ask God for permission every time I need to go to the bathroom. "Is it ok God if I go to the bathroom now? I have to pee really bad." No, rather you don't need God to tell you things.
When God does tell you things you should listen, but if He doesn't tell you certain things, you don't have to say "oh well God didn't tell us so we can't do it." So if you are thinking about whether to kill someone who just invaded your home by breaking into it, you don't have time to wait until God gives you permission to kill him. And besides He already gave us permission. He gave us a lot of rules and guidelines and advice which if we study in advance, it should give us a good reliable guide of the right things to do in life. But sometimes, things can be a little fuzzy even if you do a lot of seeking and studying. In these cases you have to do what you believe is the best/right thing to do. So I don't need to know what God says about whether i can deceive people or not becaues that's not how it works. Rather, you use the principles established in life and history to determine if it is something that is acceptable or not. Is it ok to deceive someone for such and such reasons and in such and such way? That's something you can try to figure out on your own with your own reasoning mind.
One of the ten commandments is "Do not kill." But then other places in the bible God commands people to kill others. So then the command "do not kill" must not be universal and must have some exceptions.
Similarly then, it is possible that the command of not coveting your neighbor's wife may not be universal and may have some exceptions, and I believe it does.
Likewise the command to not steal has exceptions.
The command to honor your parents has exceptions. I would argue that each of the ten commandments refers to a very narrow specific issue that is always forbidden.
Likewise the command to not have other gods before him must be understand in its intended meaning. because in other places in scripture we are told that humans are gods and that we are not to respect the gods and that God is the God of gods and King of kings and Lord of lords. Implies there are other gods. So rather than saying all gods are wrong, its saying gods in a certain way are wrong always. but in other ways, it could be fine as long as it doesn't violate the one way that God's command spoke against.
Likewise the command to not have graven images. Yet other places God commands people to make graven images. So we must understand it only speaks of a certain type of graven image, not all graven images.
The command to keep the Sabbath by not doing work on it. Its talkin about a certain type of work. Not all work is wrong to do on the Sabbath. And specifically for those who are not in covenant with God, the sabbath is not commanded for them.
When it speaks of not bearing false witness, it is not saying that all false witness is being outlawed. Rather its speaking about a certain type of false witness. The type of intentional falsehood. But a witness is false even if they think they are remembering things correctly but they are actually misremembering.
As for adultery, if you define adultery as "Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse." according to the Bible, God actively encourages and never once condemns the practice of concubinage which is surrogate spouses for the sake of childbearing. Also known as spouse swapping. What that means is a man and wife can agree ahead of time for a different woman that the man is not married to to take her place and be his wife until the main wife wants to be the main wife again. And likewise I believe that a man and wife can agree ahead of time for a different man that the woman is no married to to take his place and be his husband until the main husband wants to be the main husband again. The Bible endorses this for men using other another woman as a surrogate/concubine. So why wouldn't this also be allowed for women to do for men? But i believe it has to be consensual with everyone involved, and no group sex. So I believe that if Tamar's husband found out he couldn't have children, and they wanted children, they could ask me to take his place and impregnate Tamar for him. And that would not be wrong if they both wanted that to happen. Obviously that's never going to happen, nor do I want that to happen, I'm just using an extreme example to make a point as to what I believe.