{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Commons Church in Marda Loop","title":"How to Read the Bible as a Conversation Not a Weapon - Jeremy Duncan","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1854,"description":"What if the Bible was never meant to win arguments? \nWhen we're confused, afraid or disillusioned, it's tempting to treat scripture like ammunition, tossing verses back and forth until someone runs out. But that isn't how the scriptures work, and it isn't how they came to us.\nIn this message, Jeremy Duncan walks the road to Emmaus (Luke 24) with two heartbroken disciples who know all the right verses and still can't recognize the risen Jesus walking beside them. Along the way he looks at two proverbs that contradict each other (Proverbs 26:4–5), what \"all Scripture is God-breathed\" in 2 Timothy 3:16–17 meant to its first readers, and how the idea of inspiration shifted from a living, life-giving breath toward word-for-word dictation in documents like the 1978 Chicago Statement on Inerrancy.\nFrom the breath of life in Genesis 2 to the dry bones of Ezekiel 37, this is an invitation to read the Bible as a conversation rather than a rulebook, and to listen for the story that restores our hope and leads us back to Jesus.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WCxar2jT4U2sdUUz7lffsOVbPl8iMgSpriT3BVm8asg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lN2Zl/MjBlNzRlOTIwYjU4/NjlkY2NiZGY3NGM4/YWJlYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}