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A friend shared the images below from the book Get to Know Jesus<\/a>\"\"<\/em> by Nancy I. Sanders<\/a> on Facebook. The characterization of what Bible scholars have to say in the second image is appallingly dishonest. I am not clear why Sanders thinks it is appropriate to lie to children about what scholars say, but I would encourage her to cease doing so. It does nothing but make those children likely to lose their faith altogether when they discover that they were taught lies as part of their religious upbringing when they were children.<\/p>\n

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A friend shared the images below from the book Get to Know Jesus by Nancy I. Sanders on Facebook. The characterization of what Bible scholars have to say in the second image is appallingly dishonest. I am not clear why Sanders thinks it is appropriate to lie to children about what scholars say, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":25328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,139],"tags":[319,1140,7521,10870],"class_list":["post-25330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-fundamentalism-religion","tag-academics","tag-bible","tag-misrepresentation","tag-scholars"],"yoast_head":"\nGet to Know Bible Scholars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A friend shared the images below from the book Get to Know Jesus by Nancy I. Sanders on Facebook. 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