{"id":372,"date":"2024-03-12T19:58:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T00:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=372"},"modified":"2024-03-12T19:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T00:58:33","slug":"anxious-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Anxious Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wrote this one thinking about Genesis 6:6-8 (title hits Romans 8:19):<br><br><em>Yahweh regretted\u00a0that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.\u00a0So Yahweh said, \u201cI will wipe from the face of the earth\u00a0the human race I have created\u2014and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground\u2014for I regret that I have made them.\u201d But Noah\u00a0found favor in Yahweh&#8217;s eyes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s more poetic perhaps than &#8220;theological.&#8221; But I love how Yahweh is truly a <em>character<\/em> in the Bible, not (as Dallas Willard would say) <em>&#8220;the great unblinking cosmic stare.&#8221;<\/em> And the thought of his heart being deeply troubled moves me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1710076357403.jpeg?resize=596%2C579&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1710076357403.jpeg?w=596&amp;ssl=1 596w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1710076357403.jpeg?resize=300%2C291&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrote this one thinking about Genesis 6:6-8 (title hits Romans 8:19): Yahweh regretted\u00a0that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.\u00a0So Yahweh said, \u201cI will wipe from the face of the earth\u00a0the human race I have created\u2014and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}