{"id":9401,"date":"2025-01-25T22:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T02:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9401"},"modified":"2025-01-25T22:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T02:56:32","slug":"use-your-critical-thinking-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9401","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Critical Thinking Skills."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ferguson2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ferguson2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ferguson2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ferguson2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bible is not a car manual.  You not gon&#8217; be able to search in the back for just any topic and find the chapter and verse to answer every question under the sun.  Doing theology requires critical thinking skills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Trey Ferguson, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/theologizin_bigger.html\">Theologizin&#8217; Bigger<\/a><\/em>, p. 14<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Madenburg, Germany, June 20, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible is not a car manual. You not gon&#8217; be able to search in the back for just any topic and find the chapter and verse to answer every question under the sun. Doing theology requires critical thinking skills. &#8212; Trey Ferguson, Theologizin&#8217; Bigger, p. 14 Photo: Madenburg, Germany, June 20, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,44,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-faith","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401","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=9401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9403,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions\/9403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}