{"id":1830,"date":"2009-12-17T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/quote-of-the-day-sherry\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:57:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-sherry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/quote-of-the-day-sherry.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Sherry)"},"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>\"There are those who believe that God literally \"dictated\" word for word the entire document. 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