If the answer is "no" then you've conceded the Bible isn't an authority and you can freely choose to ignore what pats of it you want. That is not how the Bible

If the answer is "no" then you've conceded the Bible isn't an authority and you can freely choose to ignore what pats of it you want. That is not how the Bible works. It is a book of history, stories, laws, information, and other things. No Christian denomination on the planet, not even the most straw fundamentalist fringe sect you can imagine, takes this reductive view that because it is in the text it is automatically a command to be followed by the modern day reader. Failure to make that distinction when interpreting a volume of such history absent its context does not mean that distinction is nonexistent or arbitrary.