{"id":365,"date":"2021-09-22T03:24:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T03:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/?p=365"},"modified":"2021-09-22T03:24:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T03:24:57","slug":"the-bible-and-how-i-read-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/09\/22\/the-bible-and-how-i-read-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bible and How I Read It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that when I read I do in fact add stuff. This was a new revelation for me today. In Psalm 23, I always picture mountains. The passage says nothing about them, but I always picture sheep somewhere like Scotland or the Faroe Islands or even New Zealand, walking with their shepherd over the rolling hills. Another way I add to the Bible in my mind is that I have the same image of Jesus when I read the Gospel. The classic picture we have all seen. It doesn&#8217;t describe at all what he looks like, but I have a mental picture nonetheless. Yet another way I add imagery to the Bible is in Exodus when God sends manna to the Israelites, I always imagine it as little pieces of angel&#8217;s food cake because it talks about how it was sweet. The final way that I came up with of how I add images to the Bible, is at Pentecost I always imagine the tongues of fire like how they portray Ariel losing her voice in the Little Mermaid, but orange. In my mind, it looks kind of like a mist traveling between people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that when I read I do in fact add stuff. This was a new revelation for me today. In Psalm 23, I always picture mountains. The passage says nothing about them, but I always picture sheep somewhere like Scotland or the Faroe Islands or even New Zealand, walking with their shepherd over&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/09\/22\/the-bible-and-how-i-read-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Bible and How I Read It<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}