Is it really all or nothing?

Since the Torah cannot be divided into categories of ritual, moral, and social, if we read any of it as divine legislation, we must read all of it as divine legislation, with social ideals standing equally beside moral ideals. Some interpreters, of course, are inclined to read the social stipulations of the Torah as divine ideals anyway.—Walton and Walton, The Lost World of the Torah, 136

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Not sure I buy that. I read a review of one of John's books a while ago where the reviewer basically said that John needed a better theological foundation from which to read. I believe this is one of those places... Not that I think that he's wrong about torah not being laws; I just think nuance would be a bit better. YMMV, of course.
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