{"id":6457,"date":"2023-11-29T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","slug":"can-you-express-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6457","title":{"rendered":"CAN YOU EXPRESS IT?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">\u201cThe person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.\u201d &#8211; Mortimer Adler<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">If this happens in the context of Christian beliefs, it&#8217;s a sound bet the person conceives of faith as primarily a mental assent to various propositional truths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">He can repeat &#8220;what&#8221; he has read in books or heard from the pulpit, especially if it has been repeated often.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">But if you ask him the &#8220;how&#8221; and the &#8220;why&#8221;, you will get nothing but stammering or shrugging.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">In the best case scenario, that momentary embarrassment becomes the impetus for digging into Scripture with a genuine desire to gain a firsthand faith.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111\">In the worst case scenario, the status quo of the American church is preserved at least one day more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.\u201d &#8211; Mortimer Adler If this happens in the context of Christian beliefs, it&#8217;s a sound bet the person conceives of faith as primarily a mental assent to various propositional truths.\u00a0 He can repeat &#8220;what&#8221; he [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457","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=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6458,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions\/6458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}