actually making scripture subjective and writing parts off of it as ‘cultural’ is the same thing the gnostics did.
fact is protestants only like scripture which they choose off the bible buffet and they circumvent the rest in ways that would make liberal catholics heads spin.
Gen 1:27,28 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Mat 19:4-9 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”
He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
I have Jesus’ own words about “cultural” allowances in the Law of Moses. “But it was not so from the beginning” Men and women are created in the Image of God, correct?
We can all agree that when there is a conflict in reading the Bible, as in “the four corners of the earth,” “the sun stood still,” or “for the sake of the angels,” the conflict is because we don’t understand.
There is no condemnation in wearing a headcovering or in being circumcised (by hands). but I would be very careful before I made either a matter of doctrine for those who are part of the new creation. We who believe that Jesus is the Son of God know our commandments: Love the Lord with all our hearts and love our neighbor.