"serious biblical scholars" have always found something in the Word of God they didn't like. The problem has always been one of obedience rather than understanding.
I believe it is critical that those of us who believe in the Bible as the inspired Word of God always be willing in humility to examine our understanding and interpretation of it. We need to be sure we are truly following what God says rather than longstanding cultural traditions or what others have told us God says. We need to keep a Berean spirit of examining the Scriptures to see whether these things are so.
P.S. When I talk about "serious Bible scholars," I am NOT talking about Jesus Seminar freaks.
"The problem has always been one of obedience rather than understanding."
EXACTLY.
whoa nelly, the reality is God's word isn't always exact, especially when a whole lot of people were writing it down, or who would need scholars, right?
the reality is the Catholic Church itself has changed over the centuries, the major religions of the world no longer condone slavery and yet the Bible and the Koran both condone if not encourage it, isn't there a passage in the Bible about blacks being beasts of burden and/or inferior that was used to justify the African slave trade, now assuming that is true, are you going to tell me the Vatican still holds to this or was that passage "reinterpreted?"