NotMAGA wrote:
You know, the OT has several passages which are clearly pornographic, not to mention sections describing genocide, bigamy, polygamy, infant sacrifice, adultery, incest...
Perhaps that is why people weren't encouraged to read it for many centuries. The priests and / or Popes might have believed only they were capable of interpreting its more difficult sections.
You are so twisted. How many of your OT examples were encouraged, applauded, or promoted? Do you know that the Church grew very strong without a Canon of scripture for 300 years. How many hundreds of years after that do we find a minority of people in 1500, 11%, who were literate. The Bible could be used more effectively then as a doorstop. Eventually people became educated and with the invention of the printing press, bibles were mass produced and then the real troubles began. Even the NT Ethopian eunuch, Ebed-Melech, realized he needed a spiritual guide to correctly interpret scripture and the Deacon Philip obliged. Today most everyone believes the Holy Spirit guides their own individual interpretation or their church's interpretation, even when they are in complete disagreement with other Christians on essentials of that faith once delivered.
Then there's apostates like you, pretending to be a Christian, deceiving your own mind to facilitate your personal beliefs regarding abortion and the LGBTQ agenda and suddenly you find those personal beliefs of yours were the ones condemned in the OT you railed against.