{"id":7442,"date":"2025-05-03T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2025-05-03T16:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:15:16","slug":"verbal-hiding-just-like-latin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=7442","title":{"rendered":"VERBAL HIDING &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; JUST LIKE LATIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Trust me&#8221;&#8212;just as dangerous from theologians as from politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quoting\/Trusting\/Revering early church fathers set the stage for the church developing exclusive standing on &#8220;understanding God&#8221;, and hiding the Bible in Latin, so people depended on what church leaders said rather than reading\/studying\/understanding the Bible directly, for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One example:<br>This has persisted to this day through holding onto and revering trinity and all its gobbledygook &#8216;explanations&#8217;&#8212;or lack thereof because the impossibility thereof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why can&#8217;t anyone see the theological &#8220;emperors have no clothes&#8221; ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Trust me&#8221;&#8212;just as dangerous from theologians as from politicians. Quoting\/Trusting\/Revering early church fathers set the stage for the church developing exclusive standing on &#8220;understanding God&#8221;, and hiding the Bible in Latin, so people depended on what church leaders said rather than reading\/studying\/understanding the Bible directly, for themselves. One example:This has persisted to this day through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442"}],"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=7442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7443,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions\/7443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}