The only discussion to remain concerns how to interpret the words, never whether the Scripture itself is true or applicable. The truth is that times change and people and societies differ. They cannot obey because no single system can be tailored to a given individual or society or situation. A theistic system, allegedly coming from a so-called Higher Power, is not negotiable. Some theologians within Western Protestantism admit this and have begun to question the validity of the Bible itself.
Many theists think other theists act like atheists when they disobey the religion.
Secondly, they do not think the gods are concerned with the affairs of this world. Finally, they think the gods can easily be bought with prayers and sacrifices. When a believer does not meet the standards of a religion, other believers tend to think he somehow does not really believe. This tendency to purify theism by defining its undesirables and problem children into the atheistic camp betrays the knotty problems resulting from the surrender to an impossible dogma that cannot be altered. The redefinition technique is as old as the Bible and is still in wide use today.