Applicability of Scripture to current situations
It is always a tricky thing to start discussing whether some directive in the Bible is still relevant. On the one hand, by saying that anything is no longer relevant opens up the possibility that anything can be called into question. Yet the foundation of our faith are some pretty absolute claims. What is hard to discern are the actual absolutes.
I found this quotation helpful to assist in sorting out what might be universal and what may not:
“The closer the situation in any given portion of our contemporary world corresponds to the features of the world behind any given biblical instruction, the more straightforwardly one can transfer the principles of those texts to our modern age. The less the correspondence, the higher one has to move up the ‘ladder of abstraction’, to look for broader principles that may transform the uniqueness of specific situations.” -Craig L. Blomberg, Neither Poverty nor Riches (1996), p. 30
This reminds me again that is it vitally important to know and understand the context of the Bible passages we read, and to guard against using a small verse or two to ‘prove’ an idea or practice.