. . . But, did God really say it?<\/p>\n
To quote the original author of that line, in Eden:
\n“Did God really say, ‘You shall not eat of that fruit’?”<\/p>\n
Examine everything the church says, and tells you to do.
\nIs it in the Bible?
\nOr do you have to take their word for it?<\/p>\n
If you, or anyone, can see it is in the Bible, great—do it.
\nIf you, or anyone, can not see it is in the Bible, not great—beware!<\/p>\n
Don’t count on figuring it out without the Bible.
\nDon’t count on following the church without the Bible.<\/p>\n
“Search the Scriptures yourself, for in them you have eternal life, and they testify of Jesus.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
. . . But, did God really say it? To quote the original author of that line, in Eden: “Did God really say, ‘You shall not eat of that fruit’?” Examine everything the church says, and tells you to do. Is it in the Bible? Or do you have to take their word for it? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}