{"id":332,"date":"2015-12-01T19:11:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2015-12-01T19:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:11:03","slug":"where-does-understanding-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/where-does-understanding-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does understanding begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Good-News-1.1-Gen-1.pdf\">Good News 1.1 Gen 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/About-this-series-of-reflections.pdf\">About this series of reflections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Starry-Sky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Starry-Sky-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Starry Sky\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Starry-Sky-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Starry-Sky.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . God was going to begin something with that formless, silent stuff.\u00a0 He was going to give shape to a place, and He was going to give movement to the lifeless.\u00a0 We get our first orientation from our surroundings, and from the experience of the past and anticipation of the future.\u00a0 We live within place and time.<\/p>\n<p>God did not make us adrift in a random multiverse.\u00a0 He brought us into a meaningful universe He had already designed for our habitation.\u00a0 He filled silence with His own meaning&#8211;not a meaning that changed from what was thought before, but the original meaning from which all meaning is birthed.\u00a0 He did not create something pointless.\u00a0 Everything would be relational, because everything would begin with communication.<\/p>\n<p>He would create everything by speaking. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good News 1.1 Gen 1 About this series of reflections . . . God was going to begin something with that formless, silent stuff.\u00a0 He was going to give shape to a place, and He was going to give movement to the lifeless.\u00a0 We get our first orientation from our surroundings, and from the experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[27,32,93],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections","tag-creation","tag-god","tag-relationship","books-of-the-bible-genesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltribes.com\/jackofalltribes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}