Like all the ones that support his views. There's just no way around it. You and he both have to pick and choose. You have to interpret. We all do it everytime we read any book.
People always have.
Before the American Civil War, pulpits throughout the South rang with defenses of chattel slavery. Bible verses were adduced as evidence that the buying and selling of human beings was God's will. This should not be too hard for us to comprehend, when we see a Biblical text advocating something we now understand to be wrong. It's not all right. What we are seeing is the moral development of the human family.