{"id":8923,"date":"2018-09-21T05:26:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T09:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2018-09-21T05:26:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T09:26:21","slug":"dismal-theology-related-tweet-for-the-day-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8923","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 didn\u2019t create out of need. He wasn\u2019t deficient. He wasn\u2019t lonely. He created everything for his glory. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V5FkmiaQbE\">https:\/\/t.co\/V5FkmiaQbE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desiringGod\/status\/1043063032958644225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of remark that makes me wonder if preachers ever listen to themselves.  If Our Invisible Friend has no peer &#8212; and by definition he does not &#8212; then who is there to appreciate his glory?  And isn&#8217;t it one of Christianity&#8217;s bedrock claims that He was <i>disappointed<\/i> in His creation?<\/p>\n<p>Bah.  These people are nuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God didn\u2019t create out of need. He wasn\u2019t deficient. He wasn\u2019t lonely. He created everything for his glory. https:\/\/t.co\/V5FkmiaQbE &mdash; Desiring God (@desiringGod) September 21, 2018 This is the kind of remark that makes me wonder if preachers ever listen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8923\">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\/8923"}],"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=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8925,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions\/8925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}