{"id":39486,"date":"2020-06-06T04:02:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T04:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39486"},"modified":"2020-06-06T04:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T04:02:35","slug":"philosophy-why-evangelists-quote-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/philosophy-why-evangelists-quote-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy: why evangelists quote the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about human nature: the tutor examines an oft-asked question.<\/h2>\n<p>To begin: I believe in God; however, I&#8217;m not an evangelist. The following philosophical question was posed to me decades ago, before I believed. I revisit it often:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>If I don&#8217;t believe in God, why do they quote the Bible to me? They should know I don&#8217;t believe in it, either.<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nMany a non-believer has spoken the above idea, understandably. So why do evangelists quote the Bible to non-believers?\n<\/p>\n<p>Possible reason 1:<\/p>\n<p>People are most afraid of a loner. If someone quotes the Bible, that gives legitimacy to what they say above just &#8220;their word.&#8221; Especially today, you see that people may not be fond of religion, but they&#8217;re much more afraid of anarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Possible reason 2:<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve met some who are sure that even people who don&#8217;t believe in God must know the Bible is true. To many the idea might seem a paradox, but it&#8217;s held by some.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Logic seldom seems very involved in human choices, anyway.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about human nature: the tutor examines an oft-asked question. To begin: I believe in God; however, I&#8217;m not an evangelist. The following philosophical question was posed to me decades ago, before I believed. I revisit it often: If I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/philosophy-why-evangelists-quote-the-bible\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philosophy: why evangelists quote the Bible<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39486"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39493,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39486\/revisions\/39493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}