{"id":29135,"date":"2015-03-17T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=29135"},"modified":"2015-03-17T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T15:51:30","slug":"survey-says-not-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/03\/survey-says-not-a-chance.html","title":{"rendered":"Survey Says: Not a Chance"},"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-29136\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/03\/inerrancy-heaven-hell-survey-Capture.jpg\" alt=\"inerrancy-heaven-hell-survey-Capture\" width=\"441\" height=\"320\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/progressivechristianity.org\/resources\/what-do-progressive-christians-believe-demographics-survey\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ProgressiveChristianity.org shared data\u00a0from a survey of 500 progressive Christians<\/a>. I was particularly struck by how the most negative answer to the particular questions above were worded. \u201cIs the Bible inerrant?\u201d \u2013 \u201cNot a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProgressiveChristianity.org shared data\u00a0from a survey of 500 progressive Christians. I was particularly struck by how the most negative answer to the particular questions above were worded. \u201cIs the Bible inerrant?\u201d \u2013 \u201cNot a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":29136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[1140,4476,4510,5154,9597,9598,12092],"class_list":["post-29135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressive-christianity-religion","tag-bible","tag-heaven","tag-hell","tag-inerrancy","tag-progressive-christianity","tag-progressive-christians","tag-survey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Survey Says: Not a Chance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ProgressiveChristianity.org shared data\u00a0from a survey of 500 progressive Christians. 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