{"id":5252,"date":"2022-06-30T11:51:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2022-06-30T12:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:12:28","slug":"to-the-rationalizing-intellect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2022\/06\/30\/to-the-rationalizing-intellect\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Rationalizing Intellect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While looking for something in my wife’s files I ran across this poem she wrote over 50 years ago. It’s amazing how time flies and things remain the same, even while they change every day. I think she wrote it while in high school, yet even today the thoughts are true, as they were over 2000 years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To the Rationalizing Intellect\nby Denise Bos (Ackerman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Corinthians 1:18-19<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark 10:15<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While looking for something in my wife’s files I ran across this poem she wrote over 50 years ago. It’s amazing how time flies and things remain the same, even while they change every day. I think she wrote it while in high school, yet even today the thoughts are true, as they were over… <\/p>\n

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