{"id":2522,"date":"2009-01-30T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/quote-of-the-day-john-walton\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T11:39:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-john-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/quote-of-the-day-john-walton.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (John Walton)"},"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\">\u201cWe should not expect the Bible to answer the questions that arise from our own time and culture. Genesis was written to Israelites and addressed human origins in light of the questions they would have had. We should not try to make modern science out of the information that we are given, but should try to understand the affirmations that the text is making in its own context.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">\u2014 John H. Walton, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/zondervan.typepad.com\/koinonia\/2009\/01\/creation-of-humankindane.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Creation of Humankind in the Ancient Near East<\/a>\u201c<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-227375255856682938?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe should not expect the Bible to answer the questions that arise from our own time and culture. Genesis was written to Israelites and addressed human origins in light of the questions they would have had. 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