{"id":24268,"date":"2009-01-22T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/beginnings-translations-and-go\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T14:30:00","slug":"beginnings-translations-and-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/beginnings-translations-and-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings, translations and God&#8217;s Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rusty Reno tackles the question of where to begin when considering our life in God&nbsp;in his <i>First Things<\/i> essay, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/?p=1287\">In The Beginning<\/a>.&#8221; Reno provokes me to ask a few questions. Where do we begin, when, why and for what purpose? What is our destiny, in other words? Where do <u>our<\/u> loyalties exist? Are we wedded too much to <u>our<\/u> ideas? That is, are we blinded to a particular theological lens and biblical interpretation that when truth is presented we pass it by because we are too comfortable in <u>our<\/u> belief system? If we are rigidly following what <u>we<\/u> think is right versus wrong will <u>we<\/u> ever advance in wisdom, grace and love? AND the problem is thus exposed: who&#8217;s wisdom, grace and love are living in? God&#8217;s or ours? What place does Torah and the Gospel have in our lives? Do we follow a political personality or Jesus, the Savior?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rusty Reno tackles the question of where to begin when considering our life in God&nbsp;in his First Things essay, &#8220;In The Beginning.&#8221; Reno provokes me to ask a few questions. Where do we begin, when, why and for what purpose? What is our destiny, in other words? Where do our loyalties exist? Are we wedded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/beginnings-translations-and-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beginnings, translations and God&#8217;s Plans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[1822,1719,1799],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}