{"id":6191,"date":"2016-05-26T00:17:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T05:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2016-05-20T22:19:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T03:19:48","slug":"6191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6191","title":{"rendered":"HOW ARE WE DOING?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Popular agnostic Bart Ehrman, religious studies professor at UNC Chapel Hill, starts one of his courses with a class exercise.<a class=\"footnotes\" title=\"Ehrman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acts29.com\/preach-word-build-church\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">1<\/a> He begins, \u201cHow many of you believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God?\u201d According to professor Ehrman, the majority of students at UNC raise their hands. Then he asks, \u201cHow many of you have read [and he will select a popular novel]\u2026 <i>The Hunger Games<\/i> by Suzanne Collins?\u201d Usually, every hand goes up across the room, with only a few exceptions. Ehrman follows with a third question, \u201cHow many of you have read the entire Bible?\u201d And virtually no one raises his or her hand. Then comes Ehrman\u2019s punch. He inquires, \u201cNow I can understand why you would read Collins\u2019 book. It\u2019s entertaining. But, <i>if you really believed God wrote a book, then wouldn\u2019t you want to read it<\/i>?\u201d Ehrman thus exposes the inconsistency with what these students <i>say<\/i> and with what they <i>do<\/i>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Tony Merida, &#8220;Preach the Word, Build the Church,&#8221; May 16, 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Popular agnostic Bart Ehrman, religious studies professor at UNC Chapel Hill, starts one of his courses with a class exercise.1 He begins, \u201cHow many of you believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God?\u201d According to professor Ehrman, the majority of students at UNC raise their hands. Then he asks, \u201cHow many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6193,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions\/6193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}