{"id":4073,"date":"2016-06-19T09:27:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T13:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2016-06-19T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T13:27:56","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The only hope for us to know the Bible is true is for God to do the miracle of opening our blind eyes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dslm9SSctC\">https:\/\/t.co\/Dslm9SSctC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/744515830054952960\">June 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This goes directly to one of my pet peeves &#8212; one, ironically, that I touched upon in the comments of the post just below.<\/p>\n<p>If there is any one book that I wish could be put in the hands of every Christian, it is Bishop John Spong&#8217;s <i>Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism<\/i>.  It&#8217;s a good, one volume summary of the contradictions in the Bible, and what Biblical scholarship has established about the truth and falsity of its myriad claims.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake: Every graduate of a legitimate, <i>bona fide<\/i> seminary &#8212; I exclude lay preachers, and the graduates of rural Bible colleges located in a few rented rooms over a laundromat &#8212; knows with perfect clarity that the Bible is a pastiche of myth, history, and politically-inspired make-believe with no more dignity than <i>World Net Daily<\/i>.  When preachers howl and bellow and wave their arms and stamp their feet about the absolute truth of the Bible &#8230; most are just doing cheap theater and know perfectly well that they&#8217;re lying.  L.Y.I.N.G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only hope for us to know the Bible is true is for God to do the miracle of opening our blind eyes. https:\/\/t.co\/Dslm9SSctC &mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) June 19, 2016 This goes directly to one of my pet peeves &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4073\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}