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Don’t remove anything. Add Notes to indicate which bits were situational only and not meant for everyone forever (e.g., Leviticus, applied only to the priest class, the Levites, returning to the Temple from exile); which bits are allegorical (the whole of the Book of Genesis); which bits are not actually rigid rules but more sort of guidelines (thou shalt not kill); which bits were embellished pseudo-history with a moral (the flight from Egypt); which bits are really essential to live in peace with one’s neighbors (love God, love your neighbor, love yourself); a clear indication in what form He intended His purpose for man to be carried forward (whether by the sword, by burning heretics, by forced conversions, by planting flags on continent’s beaches and claiming entire continents and their indigenous populations for Spain or for England, or not, as the case may be); whether “upon this rock I will build my church” meant an inner esoteric ‘church’ of the heart or an exterior exoteric institution which owns property and tv stations, crowns kings, and wages wars.
