{"id":3294,"date":"2008-10-28T21:56:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T03:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2021-06-12T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T19:41:09","slug":"debunk-psalm-1188-is-center-of-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/debunk-psalm-1188-is-center-of-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunk: Psalm 118:8 is center of Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

*UPDATE 06\/21 – Thank you to a commenter who made me aware that there is no longer an article on this topic at the Snopes website. So, the info in this post – to the best of my knowledge – is redacted and not accurate. I am always happy to be corrected when new facts come to light. Thank you!*<\/p>\n

Another urban legend debunk – this time about the “center” verse of the bible. The claim is that the verse at the very middle of the bible might contain an extra important message – and that the verse is Psalm 118:8 which reads: “It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.”<\/p>\n

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As usual, urban legends contain an element of truth. The actual middle of the bible would be Psalm 118:8-9 which also includes the verse:\u00c2\u00a0 “It is better to take refue in the Lord than to trust in princes.” So I guess we could concede that the general meaning is still intact by combining the two verses.<\/p>\n

You can read all the nitty gritty details at one source here:
\n(*Update 06\/21 – there is not currently an article on this topic at the Snopes website. Please see note at the top of this post*)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/religion\/center.asp<\/a><\/p>\n

For several years now, when I get those feel good stories that command you to forward to 10 other people, I automatically google the story and 9 times out of 10 – it’s an urban legend. Then I email a link to the urban legend debunk page back to the sender.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I get rude responses – and most of the time no response, but I stop getting the feel good stories emailed to me. Yes, I feel a *little* bad for raining on parades – but if I want a feel good story I would rather read something I *know* is fantasy like a good Disney film. I don’t care to mix the worlds anymore – it doesn’t bring me joy. I guess that puts me in the category of Skeptic which to many people has negative connotations, but I think it’s a good thing.<\/p>\n

And what do I do for a living? I work in music and create imaginary worlds for live performance and media. But I like the control of choosing when to delve into those worlds.<\/p>\n

It’s also my opinion that there are quite enough inspirational stories in the bible and in the real world – we don’t need to make them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*UPDATE 06\/21 – Thank you to a commenter who made me aware that there is no longer an article on this topic at the Snopes website. So, the info in this post – to the best of my knowledge – is redacted and not accurate. I am always happy to be corrected when new facts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[318,312,328,319,314,100,320,325,329,327,324,317,321,316,308,257,309,326,310,311,313],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-R8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8081,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions\/8081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}