{"id":28665,"date":"2015-02-19T07:32:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T12:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=28665"},"modified":"2015-02-19T07:32:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T12:32:19","slug":"quotes-from-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/02\/quotes-from-scholars.html","title":{"rendered":"How Liberal Scholars are Made"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-28667\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/02\/Wallace-quote.jpg\" alt=\"Wallace quote\" width=\"651\" height=\"387\"><\/p>\n<p>Yuriy Stasyuk shared the image above on Facebook, with a quote from Daniel Wallace. It draws attention to the fact\u00a0that studying the Bible in a rigorous, academic way, results in people feeling compelled to draw conclusions which conservatives dislike \u2013 in many cases, which they themselves dislike, having started out as conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Most liberal Biblical scholars, including myself, are people who set out to be conservative Biblical scholars. But actually studying the Bible and other relevant evidence forced us to move in a different direction.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuriy Stasyuk shared the image above on Facebook, with a quote from Daniel Wallace. It draws attention to the fact\u00a0that studying the Bible in a rigorous, academic way, results in people feeling compelled to draw conclusions which conservatives dislike \u2013 in many cases, which they themselves dislike, having started out as conservatives. 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