{"id":5355,"date":"2017-01-10T14:42:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2017-01-10T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:49:13","slug":"bookended-tweets-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5355","title":{"rendered":"Bookended tweets of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to the new pastors of Calvary Baptist Church! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calvarydc\">@calvarydc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7AQMgkVkD1\">https:\/\/t.co\/7AQMgkVkD1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Religious Institute (@ReligiousInst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReligiousInst\/status\/818902406905942020\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This sad news just makes me even more thankful for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkDever\">@MarkDever<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chbcdc\">@chbcdc<\/a> as they teach biblical Christianity. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8713XfUWji\">https:\/\/t.co\/8713XfUWji<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albertmohler\/status\/818645353616510976\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t, as the old expression goes, have a dog in this fight: I&#8217;m not a Christian, and I think Baptists are the low and cult-ish bottom of an untrue and affirmatively harmful belief system.<\/p>\n<p>I do take some pleasure in noting the creeping fulfillment of a prediction that I made a long time ago: Same-sex couples are going to become theologically acceptable throughout Christianity, because the public that churches serve have (by and large) accepted same-sex couples.  What is more &#8230; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Pastors aren&#8217;t very intelligent as a class, but neither are they suicidal.  They&#8217;re going to go along and accept gay couples when their congregations do.  Matthew Vines has given them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/god-and-the-gay-christian-matthew-vines\/1117795087?ean=9781601425188\" target=\"_blank\">all the cover they need<\/a>.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>This is going to be easier for most seminary-educated pastors than might be widely expected, because anybody who has been to a <i>bona fide<\/i> seminary knows perfectly well that the jive about &#8216;inerrancy&#8217; is a marketing lie; most pastors will be relieved when their congregations stop demanding to be told that lie.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Except Southern Baptists, who will go down with the ship.<\/ul>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the new pastors of Calvary Baptist Church! @calvarydc https:\/\/t.co\/7AQMgkVkD1 &mdash; Religious Institute (@ReligiousInst) January 10, 2017 This sad news just makes me even more thankful for @MarkDever and @chbcdc as they teach biblical Christianity. https:\/\/t.co\/8713XfUWji &mdash; Albert Mohler &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5355\">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\/5355"}],"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=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}