{"id":34087,"date":"2012-08-16T21:08:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T21:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/russellsaltzman-why_does_god_create\/"},"modified":"2012-08-16T21:08:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T21:08:23","slug":"russellsaltzman-why_does_god_create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34087","title":{"rendered":"Russell Saltzman&#8211;Why Does God Create?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turning to the internet my search finds nothing about why God creates. The hits always connect to us. Google the question and the suggested links invariably return \u201cWhy did God create us?\u201d\u009d I don\u2019t care about us. I\u2019m trying to wiggle myself inside God\u2019s mind and Google isn\u2019t helping. Admittedly, Google is hardly an authoritative source for answers to impossible questions, but the scant returns suggest my question is the sort of question nobody much bothers with. Hmm, if Google can\u2019t answer in the first fifty hits, does the question even exist?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/2012\/08\/why-does-god-create\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning to the internet my search finds nothing about why God creates. The hits always connect to us. Google the question and the suggested links invariably return \u201cWhy did God create us?\u201d\u009d I don\u2019t care about us. I\u2019m trying to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34087\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}