I read a hillarious quote from Steven Weinberg regarding this. I can't recall it verbatim but what he said was something like this:

"If you claim to be a Christian, you either follow the Bible to the letter or you quickly run into trouble. If you use your own judgement and interpret the Bible from modern moral values then what's the point of having the religion. Aren't you just using your own morality to make judgements about what is relgion and ignoring the Bible. If we aren't using the religion as a guide do we really belong to the religion".

Funny guy. Arguably nobody today follows the Bible to the letter, and with this reasoning there are no Christians today. Just people using the title just like people wear a hat or picks a pretty but nonsensicle title or name. It becomes devoid of meaning.