{"id":859,"date":"2016-09-10T19:09:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/brandondsmith\/?p=859"},"modified":"2016-09-10T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T00:11:09","slug":"answering-tough-texts-of-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/brandondsmith\/2016\/09\/answering-tough-texts-of-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering Tough Texts of the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandonSmith85\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow @BrandonSmith85<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/531\/2016\/09\/unnamed-3-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-861\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-861\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/531\/2016\/09\/unnamed-3-2.jpg\" alt=\"Word Matters logo\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\"><\/a>As I\u2019ve mentioned a few times (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/brandondsmith\/2016\/06\/jesus-hanging-out-with-wild-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/brandondsmith\/2016\/06\/jesus-hanging-out-with-wild-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">here<\/a>), Trevin Wax and I host a podcast called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcsb.org\/category\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Word Matters<\/a>, which seeks to help Christians understand some of the most confusing passages of the Bible. We often discuss questions amongst ourselves, but we also like to ask guests to join us. 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