LRJ88
You seem to have a warped and twisted view of the Bible so let's get two things straight.
1. Just because it's in the Bible does not mean it is behavior condoned or endorsed by the Bible. Slavery is not endorsed by the Bible. When Moses commanded slaves to be freed in the seventh year (Deuteronomy 15:12-18), he took slavery that lasted for life down to indentured servitude. Slavery already existed. This was the first step toward the boss and employee relationship we have today. If you read the Book of Philemon, it is about an escaped slave of a Christian whom the apostle Paul sends back with the letter asking him to be kind to the slave and free him, treating him as a brother. This letter helped end slavery in the Roman Empire. Before that, they didn't even consider slavery as wrong.
The Bible doesn't endorse divorce. Divorce was starting to occur frequently during the time of Moses. All a man had to say was, "I divorce you" three times to the wife and they'd be considered divorced. However, then the woman would have no financial support and if she tried to get with another man, she'd be found guilty of cheating on her husband, the penalty is stoning to death. What Moses did is tell the men that if they divorce their wives, they need to give them a certificate of divorce to prove the woman did not commit adultery, keeping her safe from stoning and allowing her to remarry. (Deuteronomy 22, 24)
Jesus said, "You have heard it said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.'" (Matthew 5:38) This was not him suggesting violence. He was quoting the Code of Hammurabi comparing what the world's idea of justice said vs. what Jesus wanted people to do (show love to your enemies).
2. Just because there are hypocrites in the Bible does not mean it's not the legitimate inspired (God breathed) Word of God. If it was a history book written by humans, you would never know about their character flaws and failures. The author(s) would be too embarrassed to be honest and tell you these things and be remembered by their mistakes for all time. But the Bible was inspired by God who wanted us to know that even the greatest people in history made huge mistakes and God forgave them anyway, just as he forgives us. Some examples: Jacob was a con artist, Moses was a drunk, Abraham was a coward that kept telling people his wife was his sister so they didn't kill him, Lot tried to pimp out his daughters to sodomites, King David was an adulterer and murderer.
Ah, thank you for showing what you think i know of the bible already from the start, i'll keep that in mind in my reply.
Your first point goes over several rather large subjects which will need to be responded to separately.
Things not endorsed or condoned by the bible changes based on who reads it and wants to benefit their own points from it, what one person claims is true in one interpretation another will claim to have a completely different meaning and it breeds no true Scotsman fallacies from people arguing that their very own version of it is correct.
Slavery never ended in the Roman empire, slavery declined in lieu of people of either indentured servitude from debts or from being expected to take up certain forms of work as part of the growing tenancy in the affected regions. In other words nothing changed, regardless of anything the verses with Paul says there.
Divorce in the bible and looking at the actual historical divorce laws doesn't exactly make the bible out to be nice, even compared to divorce laws in the Roman Empire. The bible says some other things in regards to marriage and divorce as well: "If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives." a statement which means she can't divorce him and he can't divorce her, in other words she's stuck with her rapist and can't even get away. This is also from old Deut, as you'll likely recall.
According to the bible Jesus said "You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth. But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.", this isn't even the full context of the quote, but it shows more of what was mentioned. That being said, Jesus also had another banger up his sleeves: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." all of the old laws, all 613 of them, are by this definition still in effect. You can argue it if you want to, but you'd think that something claimed to be the word of god wouldn't be so bad at bringing the correct point across.
I'd like some evidence that the bible is a historical book. And i'm not talking about bringing up certain characters or certain places, if we were to go by that standard any "based on real events" movie would also be historical, even if it sports Abraham Lincoln riding a muscle car to mow down space zombies outside of the modern white house. There's scriptures that didn't make it into the bible, it's been translated back and forth for centuries, there's many outright contradictions and things which couldn't possibly have happened without invoking "god did it" when it clashes with reality, and i'm honestly quite tired of people attempting to use the bible as an excuse for anything whatsoever considering its use by anyone to support whatever point they feel like. The largest case of hypocrisy is people still taking this book and running with it as if it makes them superior, and i'm more than familiar with sects and how they work to see how it seeps into people when they decide to turn off parts of their brains just because this is in its place.