{"id":28327,"date":"2015-01-23T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T15:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=28327"},"modified":"2015-01-23T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T15:38:45","slug":"minecraft-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/01\/minecraft-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Bible"},"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=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2015\/01\/22\/theres-now-a-bible-for-minecraft-fans\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Hemant Mehta<\/a> drew attention to a new Bible that is soon to be released: <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1632207303\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1632207303&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=457PAPQKPMUQWXEH\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Unofficial Holy Bible for Minecrafters: A Children\u2019s Guide to the Old and New Testament<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1632207303\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1632207303\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1632207303&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=457PAPQKPMUQWXEH\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1632207303&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1632207303\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what the \u201cofficial\u201d Holy Bible for Minecrafters would be, as opposed to this unofficial one. But it will be interesting to take a look at this, and to compare it with things like <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1626361770\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1626361770&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=G253F2S4EQNPZJSF\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Brick Bible<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1626361770\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\"><\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemant Mehta drew attention to a new Bible that is soon to be released: The Unofficial Holy Bible for Minecrafters: A Children\u2019s Guide to the Old and New Testament. I\u2019m not sure what the \u201cofficial\u201d Holy Bible for Minecrafters would be, as opposed to this unofficial one. 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