{"id":6726,"date":"2017-09-07T07:42:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2017-09-07T07:42:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:42:50","slug":"theology-related-quote-for-the-day-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6726","title":{"rendered":"Theology-related quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I know that John Piper is supposed to be some sort of big deal theologian, but his view of God, in this instance, is disturbing to me. I do not believe that God is running around killing babies and destroying Houston while playing a game of “Guess why I am furious with you?!”<\/p>\n

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This arises in response to a John Piper feature answering a question from a man who wonders if God caused his wife to miscarry because he viewed porn. Piper’s answer was … Might’ve.<\/p>\n

Where to begin?<\/p>\n

For starters, there is something amiss in the operation of a mind that makes this connection. Since there obviously is no material connection between an image on his computer monitor and a fetus in his wife’s uterus, the one could affect the other only by the operation of an intermediary — an invisible surveilling wizard with the magical power to disrupt normal chemical\/biological operation without leaving fingerprints, and who would visit misfortune upon one party in order to punish another. Do people actually believe that’s the world we live in?<\/p>\n

Second, there is something misshapen in the character of a person who worships, and hopes to spend eternity with, an invisible wizard who would do something so perverse.<\/p>\n

I don’t care if there are pages and pages of justification for these speculations in the Bible. It’s degrading nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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