{"id":9640,"date":"2019-01-26T12:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T17:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9640"},"modified":"2019-01-26T12:21:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T17:21:26","slug":"creepy-theology-related-tweet-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9640","title":{"rendered":"Creepy theology-related tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The @BethMooreLPM tweet in the preceding post inspired some pushback because it is, you know &#8230; <i>crazy<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley Taylor recalled some similarly crazy stuff she had heard from a different &#8220;spiritual leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don&#39;t get it either, but Mary Kassian said &quot;\u201cIf I cherish the true meaning of sex, I will be eager to engage in it in a God-honoring way. I will long to unite with my husband physically to symbolically honor my spiritual longing for Christ.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shirley Taylor (@bwebaptist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bwebaptist\/status\/1088877547461451781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To her credit, Shirley renounced that teaching.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">She said if her husband dies, God would be her spouse? What?<br \/> I&#39;m a never married lady who wanted to be married but still find myself single. <br \/>I don&#39;t consider God &quot;my husband,&quot; and I&#39;d rather have an ACTUAL human husband than someone I cannot see \/ feel \/ talk face to face with.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; sololoner (@sololoner2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sololoner2\/status\/1089002745582026752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But others, just as I said, are made to feel inadequate by the tweet.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I do understand. I yearn to grow to that place, Beth.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; kristincieza (@kristincieza) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kristincieza\/status\/1088879702230659074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I repeat: The 1<sup>st<\/sup>-Century Jewish sect that became Christianity was a cult, and the New Testament is the literature of a cult &#8212; and the Jesus-first teaching, and the flat-out bizarre Jesus-is-my-sex-partner schtick, are the teachings of a cult.  No less than Charles Manson or Warren Jeffs or Bhagwan Rajneesh, the Jesus-cult is threatened by healthy marriages and families &#8212; and so its teachings connive against them.<\/p>\n<p>Do your spouse and your children and the dog a favor Sunday morning and go to the park instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The @BethMooreLPM tweet in the preceding post inspired some pushback because it is, you know &#8230; crazy. Shirley Taylor recalled some similarly crazy stuff she had heard from a different &#8220;spiritual leader.&#8221; I don&#39;t get it either, but Mary Kassian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9640\">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\/9640"}],"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=9640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9646,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions\/9646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}