{"id":3510,"date":"2018-07-12T09:03:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T16:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2018-07-13T05:31:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T12:31:34","slug":"do-we-need-to-prove-scriptural-events-actually-occurred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2018\/07\/12\/do-we-need-to-prove-scriptural-events-actually-occurred\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we need to prove scriptural events actually occurred?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Christians so intent on proving that scriptural events occurred and that they occurred as described in scripture?<\/p>\n<p>Why, for example, are they intent on proving that Noah\u2019s flood occurred? Why are they intent on proving the Garden of Eden was an actual place and that it housed an actual Adam and Eve? Why are they so intent on proving the creation story? Why are they so intent on proving the events surrounding Jesus\u2019s birth? And so on?<\/p>\n<p>Is there not value in scriptural stories being just stories but with moral messages? Why mingle them with science? Why not just focus on the moral of the story rather than the legitimacy of the story?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Do we need to prove scriptural events actually occurred?\" width=\"672\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZVhElA0sBZA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Christians so intent on proving that scriptural events occurred and that they occurred as described in scripture? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2018\/07\/12\/do-we-need-to-prove-scriptural-events-actually-occurred\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do we need to prove scriptural events actually occurred?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scriptures"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - 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