{"id":5728,"date":"2017-03-07T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5728"},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:21:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:21:46","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5728","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\">God cares about our suffering enough to take the fiercest part of it on himself at the cross. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YVjdw9OBy8\">https:\/\/t.co\/YVjdw9OBy8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/839219605826568193\">March 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t often see a Holy Man tweet something that exhibits with such clarity the emptiness of Christian theology.  After all, Our Invisible Friend is omnipotent, or all-powerful &#8212; he could make all suffering go away in an instant.  He could create in a twinkling the pets he desires for companionship.  Instead, he chooses to afflict humanity with this convoluted scheme where you gamely endure suffering in this life, in hope of a better next life, and if you don&#8217;t you are tortured for eternity.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously: What sort of dysfunctional mind accepts such things as true?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God cares about our suffering enough to take the fiercest part of it on himself at the cross. https:\/\/t.co\/YVjdw9OBy8 &mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) March 7, 2017 You don&#8217;t often see a Holy Man tweet something that exhibits with such clarity &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5728\">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\/5728"}],"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=5728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}