Morality, in order to be anything, cannot be everything.
It cannot be both good and bad.
A Standard must be definitive. Borders and Boundries define exactly where IS is.
The Bible, it must be understood, is NOT the product of a single mind with a single standard.
It accumulated a great many mind's standards over a long stretch of time...yet always presented AS THOUGH it were the single mind of Divinity at work.
What is "accretion"?
It is the process by which a story describing "events" becomes layered by each telling with additional interpretive nuances until the changes are more plentiful than the original facts.
The "standard" of Morality is so twisted by retellings of diversely interpreted events broken free of original contexts--there is no soundness to it.
To the man of Faith who is chastised never to rely on "human understanding" the idea of logical curiousity applied to bible morality is out of the picture!
The danger is real that the Faithful person absorbs chaotic nonsense and STRONGLY BELIEVES it is perfect and wonderful BECAUSE it is from God.
I live in the Southern part of the United States. Did you know that the telling of "facts" about the Civil War in the South is practically devoid of racial underpinnings as a "cause" of the War Between the States? It is offered as a conflict over "States Rights" instead of the issue of Slavery!
This is what I'm talking about. By recasting the Event in a new context the "morality" issue is blurred and muddied beyond comprehension.
When a Northerner and a Southerner argue over the Civil War they are talking at cross-purposes immediately. They do not even possess the same "facts".
So too with the scriptures!
What is a JEW? God's "chosen people" or "christ killer"? Depends on which books of the bible you are reading and in what context!
Jehovah's Witnesses have recontextualized JEW into "spiritual Jew" which is nothing Jewish at all--just a fuzzy metaphor for Gentile who accepts Paul's theology without thinking.
The language of accretion cannot be used to parse GOOD or BAD and certainly not useful for teaching MORALITY.
One final point.
God cannot be injured; only humans can be injured.
Therefore, treating MORALITY as something which pleases God and does not injure His Standards is ludicrous.
Punishing wicked people doesn't HELP God. Forgiving wicked people doesn't HELP God. God needs no help.
On what basis would GOD have dealings with inferior creatures incapable of perfect behavior?
Only by LOWERING HIS PERFECT RIGHTEOUS STANDARDS!
Isn't this the nonsensical foundation of GRACE? The innocent (Jesus) is punished and dies while the guilty sinners are pronounced righteous!
INJUSTICE from a JUST God??
Total immorality.
Why?
It is the result of accretion. A story worked out over thousands of years with all contexts removed and presented AS THOUGH God is doing it.
In other words: poppycock.
