{"id":537,"date":"2011-06-10T08:41:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=530"},"modified":"2011-06-10T08:41:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:41:43","slug":"god-beyond-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/06\/god-beyond-the-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"God Beyond 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>Two humorous images related to this theme. First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedpastor.com\/2011\/06\/10\/its-a-god-fit\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here\u2019s a cartoon from David Hayward<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nakedpastor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/god-fit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"399\"><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/church-sign-of-the-day-31\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JesusNeedsNewPr+%28JESUS+NEEDS+NEW+PR%3A+The+blog+of+author+Matthew+Paul+Turner%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Jesus Needs New PR, a sign from a church that believes that God is still speaking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"631\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two humorous images related to this theme. 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