{"id":11920,"date":"2020-03-20T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11920"},"modified":"2020-03-20T10:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:58:35","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11920","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related tweet for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The ministry leaders of the 21st century won\u2019t need less theological training \u2014 they\u2019ll need more. <\/p>\n<p>When many seminaries offer faster, easier, simpler, we\u2019ll embrace deeper, richer, and stronger. Find out more here <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I0GNbLcNfG\">https:\/\/t.co\/I0GNbLcNfG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GUOxaas5Pk\">pic.twitter.com\/GUOxaas5Pk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Southern Seminary (@SBTS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBTS\/status\/1240733664964685831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The problem here is not in plain sight, and amounts to this: Theology is not a branch of knowledge; it&#8217;s a branch of bunco.  We can say that because theology never does the hard work of establishing its premises &#8212; never establishes that Our Invisible Friend is real, never establishes that Our Invisible Friend superintended the production of the Bible, never establishes that the Bible we have is a faithful rendering of the originals of the multiple texts which comprise the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>To skirt those problems, theologians grandly announce that they are &#8216;presuppositionalists&#8217; &#8212; meaning, they presuppose the truth of those unproven and unprovable claims &#8212; and get busy telling everybody what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Going more deeply into make-believe does not change that theology has no more intellectual dignity than astrology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ministry leaders of the 21st century won\u2019t need less theological training \u2014 they\u2019ll need more. When many seminaries offer faster, easier, simpler, we\u2019ll embrace deeper, richer, and stronger. Find out more here https:\/\/t.co\/I0GNbLcNfG pic.twitter.com\/GUOxaas5Pk &mdash; Southern Seminary (@SBTS) March &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920"}],"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=11920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11922,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11920\/revisions\/11922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}