{"id":1564,"date":"2010-12-08T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T00:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2010-12-08T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T00:53:14","slug":"the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2010\/12\/08\/the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The acid test for <em>any<\/em> theology is this: \u00a0Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind and strength? \u00a0If the thoughtful, honest answer is; &#8220;Not really,&#8221; then we need to look elsewhere or deeper. \u00a0It does not really matter how sophisticated intellectually or doctrinally our approach is. \u00a0If it fails to set a <em>loveable<\/em> God &#8212; a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being &#8212; before ordinary people, we have gone wrong. We should not keep going in the same direction, but turn around and take another road.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Dallas Willard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acid test for any theology is this: \u00a0Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind and strength? \u00a0If the thoughtful, honest answer is; &#8220;Not really,&#8221; then we need to look elsewhere or deeper. \u00a0It does not really matter how sophisticated intellectually or doctrinally our approach is. \u00a0If it fails to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-pe","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}