{"id":4050,"date":"2007-12-05T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/quote-of-the-day-ken-schenck-4\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T09:50:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-ken-schenck-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/quote-of-the-day-ken-schenck-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Ken Schenck)"},"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><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cWe might summarize Piper\u2019s theology here as \u201cGod so loved himself that He sent His only Son (admiring Himself greatly for so doing), that whoever He has chosen to save will irresistably believe and so have eternal life.\u201d Love has no meaning whatsoever in Piper\u2019s system. It amounts to little more than divine masturbation\u201d<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/kenschenck.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/review-4-pipers-future-of-justification.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ken Schenck<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4863806083232273902?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe might summarize Piper\u2019s theology here as \u201cGod so loved himself that He sent His only Son (admiring Himself greatly for so doing), that whoever He has chosen to save will irresistably believe and so have eternal life.\u201d Love has no meaning whatsoever in Piper\u2019s system. 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