{"id":2262,"date":"2012-12-10T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/12\/i-enjoy-reading-tomas-mcdonalds-god-and-the-machine.html"},"modified":"2012-12-10T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T09:35:00","slug":"i-enjoy-reading-tomas-mcdonalds-god-and-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/12\/i-enjoy-reading-tomas-mcdonalds-god-and-the-machine.html","title":{"rendered":"I enjoy reading Tomas McDonald&#8217;s God and the Machine"},"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>Because he has interesting and well thought out takes on a variety of subjects. \u00a0For instance, he had a wonderfully insightful, yet approachable, series on Bread and Wine in the Scriptures. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/godandthemachine\/2012\/12\/3908\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">It starts here<\/a>, with an overview of Bread and Wine throughout the Scriptures. \u00a0Then he looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/godandthemachine\/2012\/12\/bread-in-the-old-testament\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Bread in the Old Testament<\/a>, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/godandthemachine\/2012\/12\/bread-in-the-gospel-of-john\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">what the Gospel of John has to say about Bread<\/a>. \u00a0Next he dives in and examines the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/godandthemachine\/2012\/12\/wine-in-the-old-testament\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Wine in the Old Testament<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/godandthemachine\/2012\/12\/wine-in-the-gospel-of-john\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">again in John\u2019s Gospel<\/a>. 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