[Cleburne]

And unliteralists (?) and those who esentialy reject portions of the Scriptures they find uncomfortable do not wish to mold God into their ideas? Come now...

[Patria One]

The Gilgamesh myths of Sumer predate the OT.... and those are not the oldest. Does it change God or what you know to be right? Nope. Parsing the Bible in Clinton-like fashion to look for justifications to destroy one's fellow man is not what the whole thing is about.