{"id":22657,"date":"2014-03-31T08:53:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=22657"},"modified":"2014-03-31T08:53:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:53:32","slug":"god-is-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/03\/god-is-truth.html","title":{"rendered":"God is Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-22659\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/03\/God-is-Truth.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\"><\/p>\n<p>The above quote on Facebook seemed worth turning into a meme, and so I did so, with the author\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn my view, Ham\u2019s basic mistake is to separate God and Truth. Not only is all truth God\u2019s truth, but God and Truth are indistinguishable. God is identical to his attributes. Inasmuch as Ham stands against reason, he stands against God. An atheist on his knees brushing sand from a fossil kneels in worship, whether he knows it or not. A six dayer who rejects the honest findings of our paleontologist rejects God, whether he knows it or not.\u201d (Allan Smith)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above quote on Facebook seemed worth turning into a meme, and so I did so, with the author\u2019s permission. \u201cIn my view, Ham\u2019s basic mistake is to separate God and Truth. Not only is all truth God\u2019s truth, but God and Truth are indistinguishable. God is identical to his attributes. 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