{"id":171,"date":"2010-05-21T12:16:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T19:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-06-04T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T18:35:52","slug":"how-should-we-approach-the-symbolism-of-numbers-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/how-should-we-approach-the-symbolism-of-numbers-in-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"How should we approach the symbolism of numbers in the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Discussion question for June 4, 2010.<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bible is full of accounts and prophesies that include numbers of years, people and things.\u00a0 Those numbers have a cultural symbolism apparent to the original audience, such as the number 7 representing perfection 0r completion.\u00a0 How should we study the Bible in respect to these symbols?\u00a0 What impact does it have on our current life?\u00a0 Why do you think God communicates in this way?\u00a0 How deeply should a person immerse themselves in the study of numbers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion question for June 4, 2010. The Bible is full of accounts and prophesies that include numbers of years, people and things.\u00a0 Those numbers have a cultural symbolism apparent to the original audience, such as the number 7 representing perfection 0r completion.\u00a0 How should we study the Bible in respect to these symbols?\u00a0 What impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-for-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}