{"id":26243,"date":"2018-07-14T21:34:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T01:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26243"},"modified":"2018-07-14T22:58:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T02:58:27","slug":"screwtapes-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/screwtapes-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Screwtape&#8217;s Bible Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Edmonton is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2140284456219775\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advertising<\/a> a course on \u201cGod, Christianity and the Bible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably, the title of the course is the preamble to the serpent&#8217;s temptation of Eve in the Garden of Eden. The one that precipitated the Fall and was the start of all our problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, \u201cDid God really say, \u2018You must not eat from any tree in the garden\u2019?\u201d Genesis 3:1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps it is a Freudian slip or perhaps they have persuaded Satan to lead the course.<\/p>\n<p>To find out which it is, you will have to attend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26244\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Capture-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Capture-1.jpg 627w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Capture-1-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Capture-1-500x261.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Edmonton is advertising a course on \u201cGod, Christianity and the Bible\u201d. Regrettably, the title of the course is the preamble to the serpent&#8217;s temptation of Eve in the Garden of Eden. The one that precipitated the Fall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/screwtapes-bible-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[2533],"class_list":["post-26243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-edmonton","tag-christ-church-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}