{"id":7284,"date":"2016-08-16T23:32:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/biblecriticism-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:32:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:32:43","slug":"biblecriticism-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/biblecriticism-of\/","title":{"rendered":"BIBLE,\nCRITICISM OF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, a funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called \u201cLet\u2019s Pretend.\u201d Let\u2019s pretend that we possess the objective truth of God in our inerrant Scriptures or in our infallible pronouncements or in our unbroken apostolic traditions.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Bishop John Shelby Spong<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Isn\u2019t it amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>R.C. Sproul<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, a funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put. Author unknown They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called \u201cLet\u2019s Pretend.\u201d Let\u2019s pretend that we possess the objective truth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/biblecriticism-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BIBLE,<br \/>\nCRITICISM OF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284","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=7284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}