{"id":97,"date":"2004-10-19T01:19:35","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/tantalizing-if-true\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T01:19:35","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T06:19:35","slug":"tantalizing-if-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/tantalizing-if-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Tantalizing if True?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 19th century, newspapers would sometimes flag articles &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/humor\/iftrue\/iftrue.asp\">Important If True<\/a>&#8221; when their information was potentially urgent but they didn&#8217;t have time to verify it before press-time. One wag wrote that churches should put the same sign over their doors. <\/p>\n<p>Even when we don&#8217;t fully understand the truth about God and the world he created, even when we&#8217;re frustrated when we try to talk about these subjects (&#8220;No, that&#8217;s not it&#8230; what I meant to say was&#8230;&#8221;), we ought to know that truth really does exist.  We might even find that it&#8217;s specific, practical, and relevant. And it&#8217;s not just important, it&#8217;s tantalizing, because it&#8217;s so different from the way we&#8217;ve been living all our lives. Is the Good News too good to be true? Not hardly.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike most bloggers, I find myself constantly editing and re-editing my earlier posts, sharpening the point I want to make. We need to wake up. We&#8217;ve been dreaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 19th century, newspapers would sometimes flag articles &#8220;Important If True&#8221; when their information was potentially urgent but they didn&#8217;t have time to verify it before press-time. One wag wrote that churches should put the same sign over their doors. Even when we don&#8217;t fully understand the truth about God and the world he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-overview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}