{"id":7195,"date":"2018-10-04T22:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T02:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2018-10-04T22:40:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T02:40:18","slug":"consider-the-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7195","title":{"rendered":"Consider the Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Evans-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Evans-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"274\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Evans-6.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Evans-6-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Evans-6-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other words, Bible stories don&#8217;t have to mean just one thing.  Despite what you may have heard from a pastor or Sunday school teacher along the way, faithful engagement with Scripture isn&#8217;t about uncovering a singular, moralistic point to every text and then sticking to it.  Rather, the very nature of the biblical text invites us to consider the possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turn it and turn it,&#8221; the ancient rabbis said of Scripture, comparing it to a precious gem, &#8220;for everything is in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rachel Held Evans, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/inspired.html\">Inspired<\/a><\/em>, p. 40<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, October 1, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other words, Bible stories don&#8217;t have to mean just one thing. Despite what you may have heard from a pastor or Sunday school teacher along the way, faithful engagement with Scripture isn&#8217;t about uncovering a singular, moralistic point to every text and then sticking to it. Rather, the very nature of the biblical text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}