{"id":22408,"date":"2014-03-22T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=22408"},"modified":"2014-03-22T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T15:37:50","slug":"basis-for-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/03\/basis-for-judgment.html","title":{"rendered":"Basis for Judgment"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/03\/Saved-by-Belief-in-Inerrancy.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22409\" width=\"298\" height=\"313\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>I wrote this in a comment in a discussion group on Facebook, and thought it might be worth sharing beyond that context.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"UFIList\">\n<li class=\"UFIRow UFIComment display UFIComponent\">\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"clearfix UFIImageBlockContent _42ef\" style=\"overflow: hidden;padding-left: 8px\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"UFICommentContentBlock\">\n<div class=\"_ohe lfloat\" style=\"float: left\"><a class=\"img _8o _8s UFIImageBlockImage decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jamesfmcgrath\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"clearfix UFIImageBlockContent _42ef\" style=\"overflow: hidden;padding-left: 8px\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"UFICommentContentBlock\">\n<blockquote><p>Choosing to believe that the Biblical texts are inerrant truth, all written by whom they claim to be, and even that God is really their author, and then treating any evidence to the contrary in a dubious denialist manner, is nowhere said to be the basis for God judging human beings favorably.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this in a comment in a discussion group on Facebook, and thought it might be worth sharing beyond that context. 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