{"id":624,"date":"2005-09-21T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugodlr.com\/?p=624"},"modified":"2005-09-21T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T15:44:00","slug":"heretical-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"Heretical Musings :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found some notes I had jotted down in my planner &#8211; they&#8217;re not fully developed, but I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d post them up and see what happens! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We were <strong>created<\/strong> in imperfection so that we could realize that we must make the journey home (to wholeness, to heaven) together &#8211; if we were perfect we wouldn&#8217;t need other people, and Christianity is (or should be) a communal faith.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if God had created us &#8220;perfect&#8221; then we would be gods as well, not humans &#8211; God alone is perfect . . . that means that necessarily &#8211; ontologically &#8211; we must <strong>not<\/strong> be perfect . . . it distinguishes us from God.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe &#8220;imperfection&#8221; is not the right word . . . maybe that word is more indicative of a longing, a yearning for something beyond us, something that <em>completes<\/em> us . . . we are not created complete (perfect) because we will be complete at our re-birth in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings &amp; Peace,<br \/>Hugo<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found some notes I had jotted down in my planner &#8211; they&#8217;re not fully developed, but I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/?p=624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heretical Musings \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugodlr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}