{"id":1848,"date":"2022-11-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:03:20","slug":"perspectives-manga-bible-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/perspectives-manga-bible-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019ve read our manga, you may have noticed some repetition or overlap between some of the stories. The truth is, yes, some of these stories are inspired by the same passages as others (for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/project\/two-kings-ep-1\/\">\u2018Two Kings\u2019<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/project\/table-1\/\">\u2018A Place at the Table\u2019<\/a>, or<a href=\"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/project\/on-the-road-to-jericho-1\/\"> \u2018On the Road to Jericho\u2019<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/project\/who-is-my-neighbor-1\/\">\u2018Who is my Neighbor?\u2019<\/a>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of our stories are about Jesus, but are told from the point-of-view of other people \u2014 often minor characters, who only show up in the Bible for a scene or two and aren\u2019t even named.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why would we want to focus on these minor characters anyway?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When reading the Bible, it\u2019s easy to miss the impact of the words because their contexts are so foreign to us. With Waypoints, we\u2019re trying to \u201cget inside characters\u2019 heads,\u201d and in doing so, show how radical and life-changing Jesus\u2019 words and actions really were.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_image et_pb_image_0\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blog-perspectives-middle.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"perspectives-blog-manga-bible\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blog-perspectives-middle.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/blog-perspectives-middle-480x308.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 680px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-1851\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_1  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The biblical Gospels (biographies of Jesus) are full of life, and can be looked at from various perspectives. There are often multiple themes, ideas and messages to be drawn from one short passage alone. With Waypoints, we don\u2019t want to add to or take away from Scripture, but show readers how beautiful and meaningful it is. We hope Christians will understand and appreciate it in fresh ways, and that people who are new to the Bible will be curious enough to read it for themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just like our stories come from various perspectives, <\/span><b>there are many perspectives regarding the Bible. What\u2019s yours? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019ll have a much clearer perspective if you read it for yourself. So if you haven\u2019t read the Bible, why not give it a try? It\u2019s the best-selling and most influential book of all time, and has impacted countless lives for the better. Why not see for yourself what all the fuss is about?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might just find it gives you a <\/span><b>new perspective<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on things.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_divider et_pb_divider_0 et_pb_divider_position_center et_pb_space\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_post_nav_0 et_pb_posts_nav nav-single et_block_module\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3633,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/3633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waypoints.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}