{"id":2057,"date":"2015-08-30T13:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2015-08-30T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T17:05:31","slug":"puzzling-theology-tweet-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2057","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling theology tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Any worldview that starts with something lower than God, will always end with a lower view of humanity. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/l6R8VYhzgc\">http:\/\/t.co\/l6R8VYhzgc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/637807701771223040\">August 30, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Uhhh &#8212; what does this even mean?  Or, more precisely, how is it possible that Piper could mean what he seems to mean?<\/p>\n<p>After all, he is a Calvinist, and he teaches that to be born human is to be born guilty, radically depraved, utterly unfit to exist, and deserving of eternal torment.  How is a lower view of humanity even possible?<\/p>\n<p>Humanism, the chief rival to theism, generally denies the existence of supernatural beings, teaches that man is born <i>tabula rasa<\/i> &#8212; and capable of building a better world for all of us by the application of reason.  <i>That&#8217;s<\/i> a lower view of humanity than Piper&#8217;s?  Seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any worldview that starts with something lower than God, will always end with a lower view of humanity. http:\/\/t.co\/l6R8VYhzgc &mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) August 30, 2015 Uhhh &#8212; what does this even mean? Or, more precisely, how is it possible &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2057\">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\/2057"}],"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=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}