{"quotes":[{"text":"The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","amateur","antitheistic","apologetics","application","argumentation","atheism","bible","counter-argument","criticism","deceit","development","dialect","discernment","fallacies","false-preaching","false-prophet","false-teaching","falsehood","figurative","foolish","immaturity","improvement","instrument","judgment","knowledge","language","learning","lies","lingo","logic","logical-fallacies","mastering","mastering-oneself","mastering-the-mind","maturity","metaphor","mind","music","philosophy","practice","preacher","professional","prophet","religion","scripture","simile","studying","teacher","theism","theology","truth","wisdom"],"id":45066,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","antitheistic","apologetics","atheism","control","depravity","diminish","falling","glory","glory-of-god","god","gods-will","lift","man","redemption","relationship","salvation","sin","sovereignty","sovereignty-of-god","stumble","theism","weakness","will","worship"],"id":482346,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}