{"id":3541,"date":"2008-08-12T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/comparing-views-of-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T13:49:00","slug":"comparing-views-of-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/comparing-views-of-the-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"Comparing views of the 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>I\u2019ve made some <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedcreekbaptistchurch.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/comparing-views-of-bible.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">links<\/a> available on the Crooked Creek Baptist Church blog, allowing readers to compare different views Christians hold about the Bible, as well as get further information on the canon and other relevant issues. If anyone has suggestions about other resources (including your own blog posts \u2013 don\u2019t be shy!) or better ways to arrange the material, do let me know. Also let me know if you think I\u2019ve miscategorized someone \u2013 I obviously didn\u2019t have time to look at every book and article in detail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6537071682955996067?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve made some links available on the Crooked Creek Baptist Church blog, allowing readers to compare different views Christians hold about the Bible, as well as get further information on the canon and other relevant issues. 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