{"id":7657,"date":"2018-02-01T00:37:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T06:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7657"},"modified":"2018-01-31T21:46:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T03:46:15","slug":"trusting-god-is-like-trusting-your-mechanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7657","title":{"rendered":"TRUSTING GOD IS LIKE TRUSTING YOUR MECHANIC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Esther Meek wrote a terrific book entitled, Learning to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People<\/em>.\u00a0 In it, she describes how finding a reliable mechanic helped her better understand how we use certain clues to determine whether God as known in Jesus Christ is who He claimed.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

More generally, how do we know what we know?\u00a0 It is an important branch of philosophy called epistemology. Too many people, including plenty of Christians, don’t think about how and why they think the way they do.
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I read Meek’s book several years back.\u00a0 At the time, my experiences with mechanics was mixed.\u00a0 Some were okay while others had clearly taken advantage of me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enter Joe Ruiz.\u00a0 Joe’s shop is here in Austin.\u00a0 Two friends I implicitly trust told me how Joe kept their cars running. Many times, Joe told Gil or Mike that they did not need all the other “recommended” stuff other mechanics had tried to sell them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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My experience with Joe mimics what Gil and Mike have experienced.\u00a0 Our car (with 210,000 miles) recently lurched forward from a stop. I figured the transmission was going since it is the original one.\u00a0 I took it into Joe.\u00a0 Joe told me the catalytic converter may be responsible.\u00a0 He thoroughly checked out everything else including the transmission.\u00a0 All looked good.\u00a0 He recommended adding five gallons of high octane fuel which I did.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our car is back running just fine.\u00a0 Joe charged $107 for all the work.\u00a0 I was dreading a large expense that would have been challenging on our budget.
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Meek’s argument that we pick up clues to determine whether God is trustworthy is inspired by the great philosopher of science, Michael Polanyi.\u00a0 I highly recommend it!
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And if you live in the Austin area, I know a great car mechanic!<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Longing-Know-Esther-Lightcap-Meek\/dp\/1587430606\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517415640&sr=1-2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Esther Meek wrote a terrific book entitled, Learning to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People.\u00a0 In it, she describes how finding a reliable mechanic helped her better understand how we use certain clues to determine whether God as known in Jesus Christ is who He claimed.\u00a0 More generally, how do we know what […]<\/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":[12,90,43,37,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-character","category-christianity","category-learningeducation","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657","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=7657"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7665,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657\/revisions\/7665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}