{"id":1792,"date":"2008-06-23T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2008-06-23T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:31:00","slug":"lego-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"Lego God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comment I&#8217;ve left over on Stephen Law&#8217;s site, which may be worth sharing here.<\/p>\n<p>My kids like to play with lego (so do I). Imagine they are making an item &#8211; eg a spaceship &#8211; and there is a piece missing, and the ship doesn&#8217;t function properly without it.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;god of the gaps&#8217; argument says that God is the missing piece. Which leads to all sorts of problems for theology when the missing piece is discovered down the back of the sofa.<\/p>\n<p>I would argue that God is Lego as such. That is, all the pieces are part of God. God is not so much a missing piece so much as the precondition for being able to build things at all.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the individual lego pieces are different aspects of life that are meaningful.<span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comment I&#8217;ve left over on Stephen Law&#8217;s site, which may be worth sharing here. My kids like to play with lego (so do I). Imagine they are making an item &#8211; eg a spaceship &#8211; and there is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1792\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[59,34,46,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-philosophy","category-stephen-law","category-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-sU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}