{"id":37004,"date":"2022-09-13T13:19:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-would-one-be-inclined-to-read-and-research-the-bible-in-a-state-of-inebriation-whereas-on-days-of-sober-mindedness-not-be-inclined-to-even-open-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:19:58","slug":"why-would-one-be-inclined-to-read-and-research-the-bible-in-a-state-of-inebriation-whereas-on-days-of-sober-mindedness-not-be-inclined-to-even-open-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-would-one-be-inclined-to-read-and-research-the-bible-in-a-state-of-inebriation-whereas-on-days-of-sober-mindedness-not-be-inclined-to-even-open-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Why would one be inclined to read and research the Bible in a state of inebriation whereas on days of sober mindedness not be inclined to even open the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>It is well proven that alcohol impacts the judgment and executive functions of the brain. When drinking, the emotional centers of the brain begin to control that&nbsp;person&#039;s actions. Therefore, it would be that person&#039;s emotions (perhaps a guilty conscience) that may drive him to read his Bible when impaired by alcohol.&nbsp;He might feel badly about past actions and seek some relief. On the other hand, if a person is an angry drunk, then that anger may be driving him to find verses about God punishing his enemies. We really don&#039;t know the specific reasons&nbsp;a person would read God&#039;s Holy Bible when inebriated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, God instructs us to approach him in humility and in truth. &quot;God is a spirit: and they that worship him must <strong>worship him in spirit and in truth.&quot; John 4:23. <\/strong>Perhaps a drunkard may read the words of&nbsp;scriptures but<strong> God will only give true understanding when his spirit is pure and truthful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well proven that alcohol impacts the judgment and executive functions of the brain. When drinking, the emotional centers of the brain begin to control that&nbsp;person&#039;s actions. Therefore, it would be that person&#039;s emotions (perhaps a guilty conscience) that may drive him to read his Bible when impaired by alcohol.&nbsp;He might feel badly about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-would-one-be-inclined-to-read-and-research-the-bible-in-a-state-of-inebriation-whereas-on-days-of-sober-mindedness-not-be-inclined-to-even-open-the-bible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why would one be inclined to read and research the Bible in a state of inebriation whereas on days of sober mindedness not be inclined to even open the Bible?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}