{"id":353,"date":"2009-02-14T17:32:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T21:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2017-09-04T13:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:40:29","slug":"dont-thinkwrite-like-a-contemporary-theologian-part-2-trinitarian-blabber-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/dont-thinkwrite-like-a-contemporary-theologian-part-2-trinitarian-blabber-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t think\/write like a contemporary theologian &#8211; Part 2 &#8211; &#8220;Trinitarian&#8221; blabber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/threecomp1.jpg\" alt=\"A Trinitarian group, from a old Trinitarian show. Clearly, John represents the Father.\" width=\"358\" height=\"255\" \/>&lt;sarcasm&gt;Wheeeeee! <strong>Everything is &#8220;Trinitarian&#8221; now.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Not only is our <em>theology<\/em> Trinitarian, but salvation, Christian experience, the story of Christ, the whole Bible, ethics, human history, marriage, society, government, and religions other than Christianity are all Trinitarian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because God&#8217;s the creator of the cosmos, <em>everything whatever<\/em> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">somehow<\/span> related to one or more members of the Trinity &#8211; and, you guessed it, that makes these things <em>Trinitarian.<\/em><\/strong> I&#8217;m Trinitarian, my left shoe is Trinitarian, each blade of grass in my lawn is Trinitarian, the nation of Luxembourg is Trinitarian, Dr. Pepper is Trinitarian, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tao_Te_Ching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tao Te Ching<\/a> is Trinitarian.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, everything can be referred to in at least three ways (me, myself, I), and nearly everything has three aspects. So, it&#8217;s all Trinitarian now. <strong>Theology has never been more relevant!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you, foolish reader, thought that Trinitarian theology was an arcane, abstract topic, irrelevant to Important Things. But no, friend, it&#8217;s <strong>relevant to Everything<\/strong> Whatever, and so, to all Important Things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This by the way, shows how doggone important I the Trinitarian Theologian<small><\/small><small><\/small><small><\/small><small>TM<\/small> am<\/strong>. I hold the keys to understanding Everything, &#8217;cause <em>everything<\/em> is Trinitarian.<\/p>\n<p>Some might say that this is just <strong>meaningless free associating and puffery<\/strong>. To that, I have a Trinitarian reply: no, no, no. &lt;\/sarcasm&gt;<\/p>\n<p>OK, my theologian friends &#8211; we <em>know<\/em> that the subject of God is important. And we love you. Now knock off this sort of cheerleading talk. Please. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wheeeeee! Everything is &#8220;Trinitarian&#8221; now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complaints","category-humor","category-theologians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39425,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/39425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}