{"id":3236,"date":"2024-12-07T03:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","slug":"knowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3236","title":{"rendered":"KNOWING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\u00a0<i>Several short sentences about writing<\/i>, Verlyn Klinkenborg (What a name!) outlines &#8220;the ways we know nearly everything about the world around us&#8221; in these terms:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>1. What you&#8217;ve been taught.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>2. What you assume is true because you&#8217;ve heard it repeated by others.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>3. What you feel, no matter how subtle.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>4. What you don&#8217;t know.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>5. What you learn from your own experience. <\/i>(p.7)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Klinkenborg&#8217;s main concern is how this applied to the craft of writing, I think this does apply to &#8220;knowing&#8221; in general.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems to me that when it comes to theology, #1 and #2 &#8211; what someone&#8217;s been taught and what they assume &#8211; somehow carry so much weight that they squeeze out #5 entirely.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it because God is THE most intimidating topic of study in all existence? (After all, your own eternity may hang in the balance!)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If so, the starting point in forming &#8220;your own experience&#8221; is crucial. And it needs to be this: There is a God and He is GOOD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0Several short sentences about writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg (What a name!) outlines &#8220;the ways we know nearly everything about the world around us&#8221; in these terms: 1. What you&#8217;ve been taught. 2. What you assume is true because you&#8217;ve heard it repeated by others. 3. What you feel, no matter how subtle. 4. What you don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissertation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}