{"id":784,"date":"2011-02-02T18:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T23:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.bbc.edu\/mstallard\/?p=784"},"modified":"2011-02-02T18:56:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T23:56:40","slug":"usairways-and-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/usairways-and-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"USAirways and Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/USAirways2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-788\" title=\"USAirways\" src=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/USAirways2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/USAirways2-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/USAirways2.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I am a Dividend Miles member of USAirways&#8217; frequent flyer program.\u00a0 I currently have around 50,000 miles.\u00a0 So I travel often, usually on USAirways.\u00a0 Last week I was flying to West Virginia to do a lectureship at Appalachian Bible College.\u00a0 The USAirways magazine in the seat pocket in front of\u00a0me (for January 2011) had a published excerpt from John Coates&#8217; book <em>Original Sinners<\/em>.\u00a0 That particular book trashes the literal approach to Genesis and the excerpt which was published was fairly clear.\u00a0 The view itself is not surprising in light of the unbelieving culture in which we live.\u00a0 The author has a right to express his views.\u00a0 But what is surprising is\u00a0that\u00a0USAirways decided to step into the arena of religious views to trash the literal understanding of creation and the story of Adam and Eve.\u00a0 Beyond that, how should I (a Bible-believing Christian) respond to the article presented in USAirways Magazine?\u00a0 I am considering changing my airline allegiance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Dividend Miles member of USAirways&#8217; frequent flyer program.\u00a0 I currently have around 50,000 miles.\u00a0 So I travel often, usually on USAirways.\u00a0 Last week I was flying to West Virginia to do a lectureship at Appalachian Bible College.\u00a0 The USAirways magazine in the seat pocket in front of\u00a0me (for January 2011) had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}