{"id":226,"date":"2026-09-30T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/read-it-for-yourself\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:00:00","slug":"read-it-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/read-it-for-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Read it for yourself!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/unboundlove\/embed\/episodes\/Read-it-for-yourself-e3p6om1\" height=\"180px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:180px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What if some of the things you\u2019ve been told <strong>\u201cthe Bible says\u201d<\/strong>\u2026aren\u2019t actually what the Bible says?<\/p>\n<p>This week on <strong>Unbound.Love<\/strong>, Gayle and Natalie are talking about something that sounds simple but can be surprisingly radical:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read it for yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because Scripture isn\u2019t just something to have interpreted <em>for<\/em> us. We can read it. Question it. Wrestle with it. Study the history. Compare translations. Pay attention to context. And sometimes discover that what we inherited as \u201cbiblical\u201d may have a lot more to do with culture than Scripture. <\/p>\n<p>We talk about interpretation and bias, the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, exegesis versus eisegesis, the danger of deciding what we believe and <em>then<\/em> searching Scripture for ammunition\u2014and why good scholarship doesn\u2019t take the Bible away from us; it can help us encounter it more deeply. <\/p>\n<p>And underneath all of it is a pretty simple invitation:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t just trust what you\u2019ve heard.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Open the book.<\/strong><br \/><strong>Read for yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You might be surprised by what\u2014and who\u2014you find there<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>What if some of the things you\u2019ve been told \u201cthe Bible says\u201d\u2026aren\u2019t actually what the Bible says? This week on Unbound.Love, Gayle and Natalie are talking about something that sounds simple but can be surprisingly radical: Read it for yourself. Because Scripture isn\u2019t just something to have interpreted for us. We can read it. Question it. Wrestle with it. Study the history. Compare translations. Pay attention to context. And sometimes discover that what we inherited as \u201cbiblical\u201d may have a lot more to do with culture than Scripture. We talk about interpretation and bias, the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, exegesis versus eisegesis, the danger of deciding what we believe and then searching Scripture for ammunition\u2014and why good scholarship doesn\u2019t take the Bible away from us; it can help us encounter it more deeply. And underneath all of it is a pretty simple invitation: Don\u2019t just trust what you\u2019ve heard.Open the book.Read for yourself. You might be surprised by what\u2014and who\u2014you find there<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unbound.love\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/17371743-1790020886696-2d3a5871dc4e6-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdhG8T-3E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}