{"id":2713,"date":"2013-11-22T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2013-11-20T23:01:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T05:01:21","slug":"keep-your-categories-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"KEEP YOUR CATEGORIES CLEAR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"irc_mimg\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=Vq2dKugH3pv8GM&amp;tbnid=u9Hz7pJSgR1acM:&amp;ved=0CAUQjRw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hdwallpapers.in%2Ftag%2Fcolors.html&amp;ei=72qKUoHdEaS22gXvxoD4Cg&amp;bvm=bv.56643336,d.b2I&amp;psig=AFQjCNHejnGl3wX3f9wBADYZIDURq6QlGQ&amp;ust=1384889437494296\" data-ved=\"0CAUQjRw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 62px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hdwallpapers.in\/walls\/cute_baby_colors-wide.jpg\" width=\"698\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>One of my wife&#8217;s students was a bit troubled by the idea that Jesus was &#8220;separated from the Father.&#8221;\u00a0 He said that was an impossibility because the trinity could not cease to exist.\u00a0 He is correct of course, but misses an issue many others do as well.\u00a0 I am speaking of categories.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>For example, we don&#8217;t ask what colors taste like because the property of colors is visual in nature.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>With Jesus there is a sense in which He was <em>relationally<\/em> disconnected to the Father at the cross all the while being connected in His <em>essence or being<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>My wife&#8217;s student did not need to be troubled.\u00a0 The trinity never stopped existing, but there was a real sense in which Jesus was separated from the Father.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>How to conceptualize all this is a deep mystery, but at least we can say there isn&#8217;t a contradiction.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my wife&#8217;s students was a bit troubled by the idea that Jesus was &#8220;separated from the Father.&#8221;\u00a0 He said that was an impossibility because the trinity could not cease to exist.\u00a0 He is correct of course, but misses an issue many others do as well.\u00a0 I am speaking of categories. For example, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}