{"id":3622,"date":"2014-08-08T08:59:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2014-08-08T08:59:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:59:25","slug":"trust-me-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3622","title":{"rendered":"Trust me on this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I John 1:1-2<\/em><br \/>\n<em>That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life&#8212;the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us&#8212;\u00a0that which we have seen and heard we declare to you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as if John is saying, &#8220;Look, I know what I&#8217;m talking about. \u00a0Trust me on this. \u00a0I was there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do I know what I&#8217;m talking about? \u00a0Do I have a systematic theology? \u00a0Should I have a systematic theology? \u00a0Is it possible to have a<em> fully<\/em> systematic theology? \u00a0How much should be chalked up to mystery? \u00a0Where should the flag of mystery be planted?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I John 1:1-2 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life&#8212;the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trust me on this&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}