{"id":13118,"date":"2012-07-22T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=13118"},"modified":"2015-03-19T13:57:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:57:56","slug":"impressing-girls-at-bible-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/22\/impressing-girls-at-bible-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressing Girls at Bible Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been to a Bible study with a guy who always seems able to find the right page of the Bible in seconds? It&#8217;s impressive, right? You&#8217;re still flipping backwards and forwards through the Bible while he&#8217;s looking smug, polishing his glasses and helping the more attractive females in the group find the right page&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I would suggest that he&#8217;s able to find things so quickly, in large part, due to his understanding of the\u00a0<em>structure<\/em>\u00a0of the Bible. We looked at the structure of the New Testament yesterday, so let&#8217;s apply <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/21\/the-shape-of-the-new-testament\">what we covered yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say that we&#8217;re looking for the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>2 Timothy 3:15<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We know that Paul wrote this letter. Therefore\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>2 Timothy 3:15<\/em><\/span>\u00a0must appear after the Gospels and Acts.<\/p>\n<p>We also know that if we find ourselves flicking through the epistles from other Saints (James, Peter etc.) then we&#8217;ve gone too far.<\/p>\n<p>When we&#8217;ve found the Pauline epistles, we have to narrow down our search&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We know that 2nd Timothy is a letter to a person (Timothy), so it must appear in the second half of Paul&#8217;s letters, after his letters to communities.<\/p>\n<p>After a little bit of searching we finally come across 2nd Timothy. We turn to Chapter 3 and look to the 15th verse:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #993300\"><em>&#8230;from infancy\u00a0you have known the Holy Scriptures,\u00a0which are able to make you wise\u00a0for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; 2 Timothy 3:15<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s clear that understanding the structure of the Bible makes it considerably easier to navigate. Now you can be a Bible ninja too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bible-ninja.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13121\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bible-ninja.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bible-ninja.jpg 600w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bible-ninja-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhuang.com\">Nathan Huang<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been to a Bible study with a guy who always seems able to find the right page of the Bible in seconds? It&#8217;s impressive, right? You&#8217;re still flipping backwards and forwards through the Bible while he&#8217;s looking smug, polishing his glasses and helping the more attractive females in the group find the right page&#8230; I would suggest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[302,2969,1349,373,1352],"class_list":["post-13118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-bible","tag-featured","tag-new-testament","tag-sacred-scripture","tag-structure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13129,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13118\/revisions\/13129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}