{"id":10669,"date":"2019-07-27T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T19:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10669"},"modified":"2019-07-27T15:51:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T19:51:55","slug":"un-self-aware-theology-related-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10669","title":{"rendered":"<i>Un<\/i>-self aware theology-related quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I sometimes marvel that God chose me to serve in the ministry. I realize that God knows me better than I know myself. Still, I know my sins and shortcomings, and I would not choose myself. There must be lots of guys of better character and giftedness than me.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/SbcVoices\/~3\/WiOLNtt9xxc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Terry<\/a>, SBC Voices<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no reason to suppose that Pastor Terry is anything but sincere and well-intended, but &#8230; <i>seriously?<\/i>  He who set at least 100-billion galaxies in place, each comprised of 100-billions stars, uncountable billions of those stars with solar systems (and, probably, life), peered down through all that cosmic clutter and thought to himself, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to use that infinitesimally teensy speck of dust right there as one of my publicists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After all &#8230; <i>he is so unworthy!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice pr\u00e9cis of the madhouse implications, and inherent degradation, of Christian teachings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes marvel that God chose me to serve in the ministry. I realize that God knows me better than I know myself. Still, I know my sins and shortcomings, and I would not choose myself. There must be lots &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10669\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10671,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions\/10671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}