{"id":6474,"date":"2011-02-21T06:53:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T12:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2011-02-21T06:53:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T12:53:49","slug":"wiw-the-bridge-across-the-chasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110221-6474.htm","title":{"rendered":"WiW: The Bridge across the Chasm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarah.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Week in Words\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/images\/buttons\/weekinwords.jpg\"  class=\"aligncenter\" height=\"207\" width=\"277\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A stone of stumbling.<\/p>\n<p>A rock of offense.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to God the Father<br \/>\nis through Jesus Christ the Son.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I sought the way to get the strength to be able to enjoy You, but I did not find it until I embraced<br \/>\nthe mediator between God and men,<br \/>\nThe man Christ Jesus,<br \/>\nwho is above all things, God forever blessed;<br \/>\nHe who cries out and says,<br \/>\nI am the way and the truth and the life;<br \/>\nwho mixes with flesh the food that I was to weak to receive&#8211;<br \/>\nfor the Word became flesh<br \/>\nso that Your wisdom, through which you created all things<br \/>\nmight nourish us in our infancy like milk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~St. Augustine <i>Confessions<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Augustine wanted Jesus to be just a man or simply God. Jesus as God incarnate, fully God and fully man, scared him.<\/p>\n<p>Yet try as he might to bridge the chasm between he and God, Augustine found that the only sufficient bridge is Christ, the Incarnate Son of God. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one come to the Father except by Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~John 14:6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t forget to take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarah.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/21\/the-week-in-words-54\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara H&#8217;s<\/a> meme &#8220;The Week in Words&#8221;, where bloggers collect quotes they&#8217;ve read throughout the week. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stone of stumbling. A rock of offense. The only way to God the Father is through Jesus Christ the Son. &#8220;I sought the way to get the strength to be able to enjoy You, but I did not find it until I embraced the mediator between God and men, The man Christ Jesus, who &#8230; <a title=\"WiW: The Bridge across the Chasm\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110221-6474.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WiW: The Bridge across the Chasm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}