{"id":9045,"date":"2023-11-22T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9045"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","slug":"the-more-i-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9045","title":{"rendered":"THE MORE I LEARN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I listen to theological debates on YouTube sometimes in the mornings while I exercise or get myself ready for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A large part of the fascination for me is how two people can confidently hold diametrically opposed opinions, try to persuade each other &#8230; and not gain an inch of concession.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I always end up rooting for the one who strikes me as most humble.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albert Einstein famously said, \u201cThe more I learn, the more I realize how much I don&#8217;t know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Too many Christians seem to operate more like this: &#8220;The more I learn, the more arrogant, condescending, and dogmatic I become.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listen to theological debates on YouTube sometimes in the mornings while I exercise or get myself ready for the day. A large part of the fascination for me is how two people can confidently hold diametrically opposed opinions, try to persuade each other &#8230; and not gain an inch of concession. I always end [&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-9045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045","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=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9046,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions\/9046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}