I read both OT/NT, and i always come into confusion around Bible, what it says vs how its practiced today The first example, Bible says no sex before marriage, which is great to me. But then the question becomes, well what exactly is a marriage? If i date someone for a year or we have a civil union, domestic partnership, is that considered marriage? And if we must use the state, we start delving into worldly syncretisms instead that aren't of God. Furthermore if the current regime hates our guts, why would Christians want to even play by the rules of TPTB, if they know those rules are made incredibly complicated for someone else's amusement? What if you already have sex with them, are you then considered married since you created a covenant? Per John the Baptist you are, but per other parts of the Bible, you aren't. By design, a Christian couple would need to get married pretty quickly per Corinthians, and yet this passage is completely ignored by most churches. So is Ephesians, where the man is head of the household, and no female pastors, and yet both of these exist. Then there's the poverty angle which is being used against us. The Bible never says once to help others by destroying your nation and emptying your coffers and generosity to invaders. And yet, every church I have ever gone to always states we have to do just that. And they always push Leviticus and the tithing for their own operations by guilt tripping you into paying up a certain part of your income to the church, some even went so far as saying pre-tax, which makes the tithing way more than 10%. If you make 50,000 and you pay 5,000 pre tax money, it's like paying 15% post tax money when accounting for a 25% tax rate. One church even went as far to say God wants you to enjoy the other 90%, but chunking out 10% of someone's income is a lot to ask for, especially when the entire world is imploding and the dollar is deflating in value every day. But then they also say the OT is obsolete ... except for that ONE tithing clause. And i read the clause, and nowhere does it say the money goes to the church, it says 10% for the community to be used in times of need. Where the heck does the common day corporate church fit in? And if a church is its own corporate entity, how can it truly represent the will of the people? Don't agree, and find a new church, but that's not very Christ like at all. I've seen it happen where church members leave a church over a disagreement, which is deeply ironic because that same pastor talked about the book of Mathew on disagreements. And the thing is im a strong believer, but it seems to me that whilst the Bible is very clear in a theocracy or a white ethno centric Christian nation, it completely falls apart when the nation is a melting pot of different ideaologies. Christianity will never work with Islam, nor does it work with talmudic parasites who believe the opposite of Christianity.