{"id":42942,"date":"2020-12-14T21:54:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T03:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=42942"},"modified":"2020-12-14T21:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T03:54:11","slug":"podcast-312-channings-likeness-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-312-channings-likeness-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 312 &#8211; Channing&#8217;s &#8220;Likeness to God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4589\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-42942-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities312.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities312.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities312.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities312.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=42942-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities312.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities312.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William_Ellery_Channing_by_Henry_Cheever_Pratt_1857.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42946\" width=\"449\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William_Ellery_Channing_by_Henry_Cheever_Pratt_1857.jpg 801w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William_Ellery_Channing_by_Henry_Cheever_Pratt_1857-450x411.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/William_Ellery_Channing_by_Henry_Cheever_Pratt_1857-768x701.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This episode is my modernized version of William Ellery Channing&#8217;s 1828 sermon &#8220;Likeness to God.&#8221; In it Channing takes as his starting point the text, &#8220;Therefore <strong>be imitators of God<\/strong>, as beloved children.&#8221; (Ephesians 5:1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Human beings <em>imitating <\/em>God, which entails <em>being like <\/em>God? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes. His thesis is that <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;&#8230;<strong>true religion<\/strong> consists in intending as our main goal a growing likeness to the Supreme Being. Its noblest influence consists in making us more and more partakers in the divine nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But can a <strong>sinful, limited human<\/strong> like you or me <em>really <\/em>come to resemble God, to in that sense be &#8220;divine&#8221;? Channing argues that this <em>is <\/em>possible, and is the goal of Christian teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is he right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links for this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Peter 1:4; Ephesians 5:1; Matthew 5:8; 1 John 4:15; Matthew 5:48; 1 Peter 3:4; Luke 15:7; Ephesians 3:19; Romans 2:7; Genesis 1:26; Psalm 19:1-4; Isaiah 6:3; Psalm 8:5; Hebrews 2:7; Matthew 13:43. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Socrates\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Socrates (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Socrates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_the_Great\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Alfred the Great (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Alfred the Great<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Milton\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"John Milton (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">John Milton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a aria-label=\" Fran\u00e7ois F\u00e9nelon (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fran%C3%A7ois_F%C3%A9nelon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Fran\u00e7ois F\u00e9nelon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Hampden\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"John Hampden (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">John Hampden<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Washington\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"George Washington (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">George Washington<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week&#8217;s thinking music is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Kai_Engel\/Satin_1564\/Kai_Engel_-_Satin_-_05_Great_Expectations_1199\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Great Expectations (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Great Expectations<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Kai_Engel\">Kai Engel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42952,"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":[21,62,14,55,57,77,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-calvinism","category-history","category-holy-spirit","category-podcast","category-protestant","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42942","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=42942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42956,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42942\/revisions\/42956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}