{"id":701,"date":"2011-07-14T23:06:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=701"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:06:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:06:33","slug":"the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"The Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>It is the first book and the best book and the oldest book in all<br \/>\nthe world. It contains the choicest matter, gives the best<br \/>\ninstruction, and affords the greatest pleasure and satisfaction<br \/>\nthat was ever revealed. It contains the best laws and<br \/>\nprofoundest mysteries that were ever penned. It brings the best<br \/>\nof tidings, and affords the best of comfort, to the enquiring, and<br \/>\ndisconsolate. It exhibits life and immortality from everlasting,<br \/>\nand shows the Way to eternal glory. It is a brief recital of all that<br \/>\nhas passed and a certain prediction of all that is to come. It<br \/>\nsettles all matters of debate, resolves all doubts and eases the<br \/>\nmind and conscience of all their scruples. It reveals the only<br \/>\nliving and true God, and shows the way to him: it sets aside all<br \/>\nother gods, and describes the vanity of them, and of all who<br \/>\ntrust in them. In short, it is a book of law, to show right from<br \/>\nwrong, a book of wisdom, that condemns all folly, and makes<br \/>\nthe foolish wise; a book of truth, that detects all lies, and<br \/>\nconfutes all errors; and a book of life that gives life, and shows<br \/>\nthe way from everlasting death\u2026. It is a complete code of laws, a perfect body of divinity, an unequalled<br \/>\nnarrative, a book of lives, a book of travels, a book of voyages. It is the<br \/>\nbest covenant that was ever agreed upon, and the best deed that ever<br \/>\nwas sealed, the best evidence that was ever produced, the best will that<br \/>\nwas ever made, the best testament that was ever signed. To understand<br \/>\nit is to be wise indeed, to be ignorant of it, is to be destitute of<br \/>\nwisdom\u2026\u2026<br \/>\nAnd that which crowns it all is, that the Author is without partiality,<br \/>\nand without hypocrisy; in whom there is no variableness, or shadow of<br \/>\nturning.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>William Huntington<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the first book and the best book and the oldest book in all the world. It contains the choicest matter, gives the best instruction, and affords the greatest pleasure and satisfaction that was ever revealed. It contains the best laws and profoundest mysteries that were ever penned. It brings the best of tidings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-william-huntington","category-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}