{"id":2786,"date":"2010-12-11T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T08:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2010-12-11T09:47:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T09:47:29","slug":"the-original-agnostic-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=2786","title":{"rendered":"The original Agnostic sin!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I know the truth\u2019 or \u2018I know God\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Even scarier to an agnostic is a group who say \u2018We know the truth\u2019 \/ \u2018We know God\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>To say I know God,  reduces god to a god  made in our image.<br \/>\nPeople who claim to know the truth want to wrap Jesus up in swaddling clothes or keep him pinned to a cross. It\u2019s safer! <\/p>\n<p>To claim you know the truth immediately prevents you from knowing any further truth.<\/p>\n<p>Meister Eckhart says&#8230;<br \/>\n\u2018If thou lovest God as God, as spirit, as Person or as image that must all go. Love him as he is: a not-God, a non-spirit, a not-Person, a not-image.\u2019 In short, whatever you say God is, you must also say God is not, and if you don\u2019t you risk nothing less than idolatry\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I pray God to rid me of god\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The highest and loftiest thing that one can let go of is to let go of God for the sake of God\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018God\u2019s exit is her entrance\u2019<\/p>\n<p>And Mark Vernon says..<br \/>\nThe strongest Bible-believing Christians are probably the ones building the great idols of our day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I know the truth\u2019 or \u2018I know God\u2019 Even scarier to an agnostic is a group who say \u2018We know the truth\u2019 \/ \u2018We know God\u2019 To say I know God, reduces god to a god made in our image. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=2786\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agnostic-advent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2794,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}