{"id":1784,"date":"2015-08-04T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2015-08-04T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T12:00:21","slug":"a-preachers-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"A preacher&#8217;s education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what you get to listen to when you attend a Baptist seminary where facts don&#8217;t matter and the Bible is taken seriously.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betweenthetimes.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/04\/id-rather-be-a-saved-sinner-than-an-unfallen-angel\/\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019d Rather Be A Saved Sinner than an Unfallen Angel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m scheduled to record a lecture on angels for a class this fall. As I prepared my notes two thoughts became clear to me: angels are remarkably mysterious beings and I wouldn\u2019t want to be one. Yes, the Bible teaches that they have amazing \u201csuperhero\u201d abilities that would be really cool to possess, but there is so much missing from their lives that you and I enjoy as redeemed humans. Being embodied has its advantages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought quite seriously through the years of enrolling and auditing some of the classes at Southeastern, just to find out what lectures and exams about make-believe are like; it&#8217;s <i>got<\/i> to be more entertaining than predicting the resting place of all of the balls on a billiard table when the cue ball strikes the rack with <i>this<\/i> force at <i>that<\/i> location and with such-and-such a trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;d end-up being thrown out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what you get to listen to when you attend a Baptist seminary where facts don&#8217;t matter and the Bible is taken seriously. I\u2019d Rather Be A Saved Sinner than an Unfallen Angel Today I\u2019m scheduled to record a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1784\">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\/1784"}],"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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}