Kristen

I think I found it.
I said, “No– I don’t agree with the ‘only cultural’ idea– that we can ignore some portions of scripture because they’re only cultural. Instead, I believe that in every passage, we are to take into account the shared cultural assumptions of writer and audience, so that we can understand and obey the principle being conveyed, that the original audience would have understood.
So– the idea that the church is to Christ more like a wife is to a husband than a slave is to a master, is a beautiful, timeless teaching that I would never seek to circumvent.”
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So what I said was that I didn’t agree with dismissing portions of the Bible as “only cultural.” I also said, though, that we needed to take the shared cultural assumptions into account– so we didnt mistake them for commands of God. That’s different from dismissing the entire passage as not applying to us anymore. What I advocate is finding the principle being conveyed by the passage, after we understand the cultural assumptions for what they were– and following that principle.