{"id":2396,"date":"2009-04-14T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/04\/biblical-diversity-and-harmonization\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T13:01:00","slug":"biblical-diversity-and-harmonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/04\/biblical-diversity-and-harmonization.html","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Diversity and Harmonization"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesbradfordpate.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/biblical-diversity-and-harmonization.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">James Bradford Pate<\/a> has written an overview with some analysis and reflections of my own views on this subject. In particular, those who have been engaged in some of the recent conversations on this blog about the Bible, inerrancy, authority and contradictions (and much, much more) may want to pay a visit to James\u2019 blog. He also has a recent post on <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesbradfordpate.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/bad-and-good-evangelicalism.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Evangelicalism and the \u201cTriablogue incident\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5774224573688139550?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bradford Pate has written an overview with some analysis and reflections of my own views on this subject. 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