welcome aboard HH glitter sauasages!
Over here on U-Know we do get our teeth into politics and ethics (I'm sure there's some kind of 'teeth into'/'sausages' pun to be done there, but I can't phrase it up).
If we're to make sense of ideas then we need to have them challenged and picked over so we can see which ones are wrong and leave them behind, and see which do stand up. I hope it's clear that it's the issues and opinions that are challenged, rather than any personal attack.
There's a coupla things you said that make me scratch my head.
If you are a Chirstian then you presumably believe that the God of the Bible is the one true god, there is no way to heaven other than by Him, and that the Bible is his revealed word.
Whilst it's true that "the bible was written so long ago and social times have changed", how can one mere mortal presume to know which bits still apply and which don't? Why is it the sexual ethics that have changed? Aren't you just tailoring your ideas of which bits still stand according to modern society and your/its values?
When the OT books got past their initial shelf life, God sent along Jesus to give us something more. If He felt it was time for us to move beyond the Bible's teachings He would have sent along someone new for a Third Testament. As that hasn't happened, surely the rules of the Bible still apply as written. That being so, it's not your - or any beleiver's - place to pick and choose which bits you think God really meant and which bits He's not got around to telling us don't apply any more.
And it is very clear in both testaments, sex outside marriage is a no-no and those who indulge shall be punished by the Lord.
"if we are to love one another then doesn't that mean accepting social change, accpeting each other for who we are and other beliefs?"
No, not if those other beliefs oppose the will of the Lord and refuse his redemption. The Bible is very, very clear on that.
"somewhere in the OT it says that Xtains should only mix with Xtians"
I find this unlikely given that Chirstians didn't exist when the OT was written. As Jesus mixed with non-believers and told everyone to spread the word, it's not only OK but there's a clear obligation on Christians to spread the Word.
"as a Xtain I still have a lot of issues with the Bible" is a contradiction. If you do not believe the Bible to be the divinely inspired revealed word of the one true God who sent Jesus as the Messiah, then you are by definition not a Christian.
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