{"id":348,"date":"2007-09-04T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/the-greeting-card-theory-of-biblical-authorship\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T15:47:00","slug":"the-greeting-card-theory-of-biblical-authorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/the-greeting-card-theory-of-biblical-authorship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greeting Card Theory of Biblical Authorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To understand a passage in the Bible, you need to understand who it was written to and what it&#8217;s used for. So of course, many verses in the Bible should be understand as greeting card messages. <\/p>\n<p>That means the Bible is:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unoffensive &#8211; Jesus wouldn&#8217;t want to hurt sales by saying something disturbing. You probably misunderstand what he meant.<\/li>\n<li>Inspirational &#8211; Now, it doesn&#8217;t matter what you&#8217;re being inspired to do, if anything at all. Inspiration simply means a vague feeling of warmth and elevation. The Bible was written by divine inspiration.<\/li>\n<li>\nGeneric &#8211; Nothing in the Bible necessarily applies to you personally. Don&#8217;t let anyone tell you otherwise. Being cut to the quick, as on the day of Pentecost&#8230; well, that was the day of Pentecost. That was a different dispensation.<\/li>\n<li>Diverse &#8211; Your freedom of choice is paramount. Don&#8217;t let your mind be narrowed. Pick any one you want, and it will be just fine. It&#8217;s up to you what to say. We&#8217;re not talking about the Ten Commandments, you know. Well okay, maybe we are. But do you really want them on your greeting card?<\/li>\n<li>Decorative &#8211; You only read it for a short time. After that, it has to look good. You have to look good. <\/li>\n<li>Smug &#8211; You did what you were supposed to do. It&#8217;s the thought that counts. Not that you put much thought into it. But you cared enough to send the very best thought that someone else wrote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand a passage in the Bible, you need to understand who it was written to and what it&#8217;s used for. So of course, many verses in the Bible should be understand as greeting card messages. That means the Bible is:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-heresies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}