{"id":12706,"date":"2020-10-01T15:53:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12706"},"modified":"2020-10-01T15:54:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T19:54:23","slug":"dismal-theology-related-quote-for-the-day-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12706","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure he\u2019s ever intentionally affirmed something he knows to be false, which is how I define a lie. As you know, I have written an ethics textbook.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Wayne Grudem, Theologian, on Donald Trump<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been pretty clear about this through the years: Theology never does the hard work of establishing its premises, and for that reason I don&#8217;t think that theology should be considered a branch of knowledge; it hasn&#8217;t a scintilla more intellectual dignity than astrology.  A corollary of sorts is this: Theologians aren&#8217;t necessarily educated men; to wit, Wayne Grudem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not sure he\u2019s ever intentionally affirmed something he knows to be false, which is how I define a lie. As you know, I have written an ethics textbook. Wayne Grudem, Theologian, on Donald Trump I&#8217;ve been pretty clear about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12706\">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\/12706"}],"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=12706"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12711,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/revisions\/12711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}