{"id":632,"date":"2023-08-15T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/?page_id=632"},"modified":"2023-08-16T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T12:52:30","slug":"bible-books-i-iv-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/?page_id=632","title":{"rendered":"Through the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/9781872240374-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-624 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/9781872240374-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eugene Halliday, artist, writer and psychotherapist, was a significant interpreter of the Bible. This book began as a monthly series of essays for the Parish Magazine of St Michael and All Angels, Manchester, in the 1980s. The title \u2018Through the Bible\u2019 can be understood in two ways. The book can be read through in the order it is printed, from beginning to end. Or, taking the word \u2018through\u2019 as \u2018by means of\u2019 \u2014 which is the sense in which Halliday uses it \u2014 important ideas given in the Bible can be followed through and interpreted in relation to problems with which we are presented, in our own lives. Thus the subjects Halliday covers, and the wisdom he imparts, range from the ancient stories of Adam and Eve, the Fall of Lucifer, Noah and his sons, to the significance of good and evil, psychological insights into human nature, the tensions between science and religion, nuclear war, ecology, computers, the mechanisation of human reactions and free will, and the nature of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Halliday\u2019s purpose, in his presentation of the lessons he draws from these ancient texts, is to enable us \u2014 in a continually accelerating world \u2014 to adjust and improve our relationships with ourselves internally, with our fellow humans, with other sentient beings and with our environment, in order to understand and fulfil our relationship with the source and ground of our being.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/?page_id=124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Read more.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an e-book, published 2023<br \/>\nISBN 9781872240374<\/p>\n<p>The e-book book contains all four of the hardback books which were published in the 1990s, and which are available from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehassociation.org\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eugene Halliday Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Halliday, artist, writer and psychotherapist, was a significant interpreter of the Bible. This book began as a monthly series of essays for the Parish Magazine of St Michael and All Angels, Manchester, in the 1980s. The title \u2018Through the Bible\u2019 can be understood in two ways. The book can be read through in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/?page_id=632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Through the Bible<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-632","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632\/revisions\/650"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melchisedecpress.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}