{"id":8671,"date":"2018-08-15T05:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T09:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8671"},"modified":"2018-08-15T05:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T09:18:58","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8671","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\">John Piper: \u201cGod controls who gets sick and who gets well. And all his decisions are for the good of his children, even if they may be very painful and long-lasting.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vRKfRDbfw9\">https:\/\/t.co\/vRKfRDbfw9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/1029654681302261765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe anybody could believe, or pay attention to, this superstitious claptrap in an age when it&#8217;s possible to manufacture molecules to fight specific instances of cancer, and grow-your-own organ replacement.  If you want to give thanks for somebody&#8217;s medical recovery, give thanks to the doctors and scientists whose disciplined minds figured-out how to do these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Piper: \u201cGod controls who gets sick and who gets well. And all his decisions are for the good of his children, even if they may be very painful and long-lasting.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/vRKfRDbfw9 &mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) August 15, 2018 It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8671\">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\/8671"}],"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=8671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8672,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions\/8672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}