{"id":2097,"date":"2013-05-17T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2013-05-17T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T21:56:13","slug":"may-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/may-17\/","title":{"rendered":"May 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too often debates about faith between Christians and non-Christians don&#8217;t recognize the root of the issue. J. I. Packer has made the important observation that the real issue in the New Testament is the incarnation; if you accept that, everything else makes sense. Over on Pyromaniacs, Dan Phillips argues that <a href=\"http:\/\/teampyro.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/the-most-offensive-verse-in-bible.html\">the most offensive verse in the Bible<\/a> is Genesis 1:1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/quora\/2013\/02\/19\/what_is_life_like_after_a_cochlear_implant_for_a_person_born_deaf.html\">What Is Life Like After a Cochlear Implant for a Person Born Deaf?<\/a> I like stories like this, particularly when thinking about all that happened when Jesus healed a deaf person (Mark 7:32-37).<\/p>\n<p>There are some stunning shots among <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2012\/12\/top-100-pictures-of-the-day-2012\/\">the Top 100 &#8220;Pictures of the Day&#8221; for 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2013\/05\/02\/martin-bashi-explains-the-gospel-to-bill-oreilly\/\">verses from Isaiah are quoted on any major news network<\/a>, I automatically renounce all my ill-will against the network for at least a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often debates about faith between Christians and non-Christians don&#8217;t recognize the root of the issue. J. I. Packer has made the important observation that the real issue in the New Testament is the incarnation; if you accept that, everything else makes sense. Over on Pyromaniacs, Dan Phillips argues that the most offensive verse in\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/may-17\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaiah","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}