{"id":30960,"date":"2015-07-08T12:41:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=30960"},"modified":"2015-07-08T12:41:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:41:50","slug":"inspirational-bible-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/inspirational-bible-quote.html","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational Bible Quote"},"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-30961\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/07\/Inspirational-Bible-Quote-from-Satan.jpg\" alt=\"Inspirational Bible Quote from Satan\" width=\"438\" height=\"479\"><\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t get it, look up Luke chapter 4\u00a0and read the context. This nicely illustrates the problem with looking up \u201cverses\u201d to see \u201cthe Bible says\u201d and\u00a0constructing your viewpoint from that. Atomized, contextless Bible verses can be configured into lots of different patterns, lots of different theologies. And in some of them, a quote from the Devil\u00a0apparently fits perfectly well\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u2019t get it, look up Luke chapter 4\u00a0and read the context. This nicely illustrates the problem with looking up \u201cverses\u201d to see \u201cthe Bible says\u201d and\u00a0constructing your viewpoint from that. Atomized, contextless Bible verses can be configured into lots of different patterns, lots of different theologies. 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