{"id":1138,"date":"2013-05-27T09:59:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T15:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2016-02-23T17:33:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:33:31","slug":"the-bible-had-always-been-confusing-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/27\/the-bible-had-always-been-confusing-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bible had always been confusing for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/btn-class.jpg\" alt=\"By This Name Class\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/btn-class.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/btn-class-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/>A church in Singapore regularly runs its own version of a <a title=\"TERM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/term-seminars.html\">TERM Seminar<\/a>. They use <a title=\"By This Name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/by-this-name.html\"><em>By This Name<\/em><\/a> as the text and run the course over seven Friday evenings. All types of people, from long-time church goers, to new believers, to those who are just seeking to find out what the Bible is all about attend. Here is a testimony from a recent participant.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After completing an introductory course, a next natural step for me was to know more about God\u2019s Word and so I signed up for the <em>By This Name<\/em> course. The course is based on a book written by John R. Cross. Prior to attending the course, the Bible had always been confusing for me. I did not know where to start reading it and how to read it the way it is meant to be understood.<\/p>\n<p>The course helped to me to make sense of the Old Testament and the New Testament. I learnt about significant events in the Bible and how God\u2019s promise to fulfill certain events always came to pass. The course was almost like a summary of the Bible, highlighting the key points. As such, when I read the Bible now, the contextual background acquired during the course allows better and easier understanding of the verse or chapter that I am reading.<\/p>\n<p>Above it all, I am truly convinced that my faith is not a blind one, but one that resulted from knowing God\u2019s longstanding history and in believing that the God whom I trust is loving and perfectly just.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A church in Singapore regularly runs its own version of a TERM Seminar. They use By This Name as the text and run the course over seven Friday evenings. All types of people, from long-time church goers, to new believers, to those who are just seeking to find out what the Bible is all about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/27\/the-bible-had-always-been-confusing-for-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bible had always been confusing for me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,19,24,39,1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discipleship","category-guide-a-study","category-international","category-term","category-testimonies","category-worldview-rethink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4930,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}