{"id":22908,"date":"2014-04-10T08:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T12:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=22908"},"modified":"2014-04-10T08:55:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T12:55:54","slug":"betty-bowers-handy-bible-interpretation-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/04\/betty-bowers-handy-bible-interpretation-guide.html","title":{"rendered":"Betty Bowers&#8217; Handy Bible Interpretation Guide"},"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 class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/04\/wpid-Photo-20140410085549.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/04\/wpid-Photo-20140410085549.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p> Via Mrs. Betty Bowers on Facebook. This is a new version of something of hers that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/07\/a-guide-to-dealing-with-inconvenient-bible-passages.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\">I shared a couple of years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Mrs. Betty Bowers on Facebook. 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