{"id":277,"date":"2006-12-15T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/non-theistic-space\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T15:00:17","slug":"non-theistic-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/non-theistic-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-theistic space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another in the series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/category\/common-heresies\/\">common yet undocumented heresies<\/a>: let&#8217;s call this one &#8220;non-theistic space.&#8221; Astrophysicists theorize about alternate universes that we can&#8217;t touch. Non-theistic space contains the areas which God can&#8217;t control.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The heresy&#8230; I mean, theory&#8230;of non-theistic space solves several difficulties. By providing an exception to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans%208:28&#038;version=31\">Romans 8:28<\/a>, it allows Christians to get mad when something bad happens to them. If God were in charge of everything, we wouldn&#8217;t ever have to worry. But, oh, this minor tragedy that just happened me&#8230; it must have happened in non-theistic space. Don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, non-theistic space provides the setting for Harold Kushner&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnankerberg.org\/Articles\/practical-christianity\/PC0799W5.htm\">When Bad Things Happen to Good People<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t read it, but I understand that the whole book is set within non-theistic space. To misquote Francis Schaeffer, he is there, and he is not silent. But he&#8217;s so sorry that he can&#8217;t help you.<\/p>\n<p>(For a criticism of a related heresy, see Paul Hiebert&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jmm.aaa.net.au\/articles\/14692.htm\">Flaw of the Excluded Middle<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another in the series of common yet undocumented heresies: let&#8217;s call this one &#8220;non-theistic space.&#8221; Astrophysicists theorize about alternate universes that we can&#8217;t touch. Non-theistic space contains the areas which God can&#8217;t control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-heresies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}