{"id":5699,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-bible\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:02","slug":"the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Hughes, who was educated at the University of London, says,<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;If the Bible is in reality the inspired Word of God, it must be as<br \/>\n    such self-authenticating; it is in no need of human sanction.  God<br \/>\n    Himself witnesses to the truth of the Bible.  As its Author He also<br \/>\n    authenticates it to the heart and mind of every believer.  It is by<br \/>\n    the operation of the Holy Spirit that we are brought to faith in<br \/>\n    Christ, and that saving faith is founded upon the good news<br \/>\n    proclaimed in the pages of the Bible, and nowhere else.  It is by the<br \/>\n    internal witness of the Holy Spirit that we acknowledge and<br \/>\n    appropriate the Biblical message and are assured daily and constantly<br \/>\n    that &#8216;all Scripture is inspired of God.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Hughes, who was educated at the University of London, says, &#8220;If the Bible is in reality the inspired Word of God, it must be as such self-authenticating; it is in no need of human sanction. God Himself witnesses to the truth of the Bible. As its Author He also authenticates it to the heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[581,3153,129,1079,151],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}