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Christian apologists/apologeticists just need to accept and explain that the Biblical canon is a haphazard work by commitee, with input and changes by hundreds of authors, word of mouth transcribers, and whose books were picked, chosen, and even thrown out by councils of people living in the dark ages with a dark age education and cultural mentality which in and of itself was over one or two millenia separated from the culture and region that spawned these works in the first place. It is a work compiled over thousands of years and a product of the specific culture of the times. Holding every word, ordinance, or cultural story as divinely inspired and chosen and eternally applicable will only cause you complications and contradictions with the modern day living out of the religion in a vastly much more liberalized and intellectual world. If you are a thinking person, either religious or not, there must be massive amounts of cognitive dissonance going on in your brain to try to rationalize any literal interpretation. Trying to apply it to your daily life in a world and culture 3000 years apart is even more absurb. It's also absurd to say that something is justified or advocated to be practiced in modern day living by a religion because of an occurance of it within the Bible.

Islam needs to understand this as well and get out of the dark ages of brutality and oppression, unfortunately, the Qur'an and other works in the Islamic canon (Sunnah, Hadith, Fiqh, Sharia, etc.) is even more literally enshrined in their religion when most of them are again word of mouth cultural remembrances or a record of cultural law for a specific group from 1500 years ago.

Stoning for adultery is nothing more than cultural barbarism stemming from our neolithic cave-man intincts regarding violence, domination over the female sex, and community/tribe order.