{"id":4841,"date":"2022-05-21T16:40:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T21:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2022-05-21T16:40:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T21:40:48","slug":"problem-with-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4841","title":{"rendered":"PROBLEM WITH THEOLOGY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I use the above title to get your attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it not true that almost all Bible teaching follows a pattern?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leader states a particular teaching definitively, then turns to various Bible verses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two issues with that typical teaching:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+There is not much room for the less learned (less educated) to question the teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+There is not much explanation for how the leader arrived at the stated conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unspoken expectation and outcome is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just accept the teaching&#8212;and most do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHY ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use the above title to get your attention. Think about this: Is it not true that almost all Bible teaching follows a pattern? The leader states a particular teaching definitively, then turns to various Bible verses. There are two issues with that typical teaching: +There is not much room for the less learned (less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4842,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions\/4842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}