{"id":1281,"date":"2020-06-01T10:12:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T09:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2020-06-01T10:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T09:12:28","slug":"dont-nail-god-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/06\/01\/dont-nail-god-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t nail God down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trinity Sunday is coming&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s reasonable to try and describe God &#8211; after all, you would describe your parents, or your lover. And it is argued that Trinity is God&#8217;s own self-revelation &#8211; although you have to probe around a bit in the Bible before you can get such a neat description. So I don&#8217;t feel it&#8217;s right to object to saying God is Trinity. And it&#8217;s a useful way to plan prayers I&#8217;m told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it just feels as if as soon as I open my mouth to speak of God, I&#8217;m making God less than God really is. Besides which, like every word, &#8216;Trinity&#8217; has a load of random associations &#8211; lightships on the sea, rugby in Wakefield, &#8216;Three-In-One&#8217; oil, etc..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today was another fine day. As the path took me nearer the A628, I caught a little noseful of HGV brake-lining smell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity Sunday is coming&#8230; I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s reasonable to try and describe God &#8211; after all, you would describe your parents, or your lover. And it is argued that Trinity is God&#8217;s own self-revelation &#8211; although you have to probe around a bit in the Bible before you can get such a neat description. So &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/06\/01\/dont-nail-god-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t nail God down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}