{"id":2140,"date":"2009-09-08T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/quote-of-the-day-mystical-seeker\/"},"modified":"2009-09-08T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T12:48:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-mystical-seeker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/quote-of-the-day-mystical-seeker.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Mystical Seeker)"},"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><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cThe Bible is a starting point, not an end point. It is instructive for not just the things it got right, but for the things it got wrong as well. Part of the process of discovery is learning from past mistakes, and if religion is a journey towards the mystery, then part of understanding the journey is knowing where we made some wrong turns.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">\u2014 Mystical Seeker, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/mysticalseeker.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/bible-and-authority.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Bible and Authority<\/a>\u201c<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3403692324231383700?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Bible is a starting point, not an end point. 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