{"id":3582,"date":"2008-07-26T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/is-the-bible-biblical\/"},"modified":"2008-07-26T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T07:19:00","slug":"is-the-bible-biblical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/is-the-bible-biblical.html","title":{"rendered":"Is the Bible &#8220;Biblical&#8221;?"},"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>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/awakening.typepad.com\/_awakening\/2008\/07\/is-the-bible-biblical.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Awakening<\/a> blog they\u2019ve been discussing my post \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/fundamentalism-fundamentally-unbiblical.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fundamentalism: Fundamentally Unbiblical<\/a>\u201c. 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