{"id":528,"date":"2015-07-03T20:06:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2015-07-03T20:06:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T20:06:24","slug":"bread2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/bread2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bread of Life (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a gospel story rubs against the grain of orthodox Christian belief, I do my best to accentuate the dissonance. However, when a story, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/pdf\/bread2.pdf\">this one of Jesus calling himself the bread of life<\/a>, plugs pretty much perfectly into the framework of Jesus as the Son of God who dies on the cross as a propitiation for our sins, I&#8217;m just as happy to run with that.<!--more--> (It helps that for once, he seems to handle an Old Testament scripture accurately.) In fact, in doing so, I even go beyond what&#8217;s in the story. I give one character, Mary Magdalene, an awareness of and belief in Jesus&#8217; real identity, when there&#8217;s actually no indication that any of the disciples understood where it was all heading. So, if you&#8217;re a theologically conservative Christian who&#8217;s been upset at how I&#8217;m always casting doubt and finding discrepancies in these plays: enjoy the final scene of this play!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a gospel story rubs against the grain of orthodox Christian belief, I do my best to accentuate the dissonance. However, when a story, like&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/bread2\/\" title=\"The Bread of Life (2)\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}