{"id":11484,"date":"2019-12-09T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11484"},"modified":"2019-12-09T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T19:52:39","slug":"dismal-theology-related-quote-for-the-day-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11484","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Everything eventually comes down to the authority of Scripture. A firm and honest confidence in historic Christian beliefs can come <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">only<\/span> from <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">a prior commitment to the Bible as the Word of God<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertmohler.com\/2019\/12\/09\/get-on-the-right-side-of-history-or-die-an-open-challenge-to-christian-higher-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Albert Mohler<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is as frank a pr\u00e9cis of the intellectual dishonesty that sustains Christianity as you are likely to ever encounter.  Read it again to be certain you understand what Mohler is saying here: <i>Begin<\/i> with the notion that the Bible is the word of God, and <i>then<\/i> you can have confidence in Christian teachings.  That is, if you accept without evidence that the Bible is true, wise, inerrant, <i>et cetera, et cetera<\/i>, then you should have confidence in it.  But if you expect the Bible to meet the corporeal standard to which you&#8217;d hold a headline in the <i>New York Times<\/i>, say, well more fool you; the Bible is never going to make any sense.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly, as my mother used to say, bass-ackward, and if this is what is taught in SBC seminaries they are committing educational fraud.  <i>Think first.  Believe later.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything eventually comes down to the authority of Scripture. A firm and honest confidence in historic Christian beliefs can come only from a prior commitment to the Bible as the Word of God. Albert Mohler This is as frank a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11484\">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\/11484"}],"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=11484"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11490,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11484\/revisions\/11490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}