I love the Old Testament. There are incredible amounts of great insights and comfort to be gained from it.
But it is for our learning, not for our law. We are under the New Covenant today.
Not taking scissors to the Bible also means not ignoring Scripture that says that the Old Covenant has been abolished (Ephesians 2:15; Hebrews 10:9), cancelled (Colossians 2:14), and is obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away (Hebrews 8:13).
Yet you would disregard as irrelevant one of the powerful examples of God’s love, mercy and grace, given to one who did not deserve it. An act so important, that God who inspired the word, made sure that as one of Jesus’ last acts on this earth was recorded for all believers to see.