God Hates Cretans? (and other passages of Scripture we\u2019d rather not talk about)<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAs part of our series on learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be, we\u2019re working our way through Christian Smith\u2019s book, The Bible Made Impossible, In it, Smith tackles the…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Because everyone who approaches the Bible does so with a sense of what's important and what's not — and, based on that, latches onto passages that they consider (or have been taught are) important and pertinent, and Commands from On High … and disregards passages that they think are trivial, no longer important, puzzling mysteries, … Continue reading “People who claim to be biblical … generally aren't”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,110,71],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-religious-zanies","category-religion-me","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41622,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/07\/time-passages-also-eek.html","url_meta":{"origin":26153,"position":0},"title":"Time Passages (also, Eek!)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 7-Apr-14 6:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"At Kay's high school registration, fergoshsakes. \ufeff View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1396915576036.jpg.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":49301,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/tim-wildmon-is-a-dolt-peaceful-christianity-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":26153,"position":1},"title":"Tim Wildmon Is a Dolt (Peaceful Christianity Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Jan-15 10:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"There are differences, obviously, between Christianity and Islam, in particulars and in general thrust -- especially when you look at the centuries and geography that each of them spans. 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