{"id":4779,"date":"2022-11-02T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?page_id=4779"},"modified":"2022-11-02T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T09:38:07","slug":"12-things-god-cant-do","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/12-things-god-cant-do\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Things God Can&#8217;t Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/tucker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/tucker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>12 Things God Can&#8217;t Do &#8230; And How They Can Help You Sleep at Night, by Nick Tucker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was doing youth work at church, there was one kid in the group who just loved to pick arguments with questions like, &#8220;If God is omnipotent, can he create a square circle&#8221;? Of course, theologians are equally capable of descending to that level. This book, however, shows how God&#8217;s inability to contradict what he is by definition is a major source of strength and comfort for Christians. God is the one necessary being from whom all else flows. Therefore God CAN&#8217;T by definition do things that would detract from that perfection. So, we don&#8217;t need to worry about being let down.<\/p>\n<p>But, just where you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;How, then, can this God who can&#8217;t do so much possibly understand me, who can do all of the above far too easily?&#8221; \u2013 well, then, that brings us on to the sheer joy and necessity of the incarnation in Jesus. So, we have the glorious contradiction of a God who can&#8217;t do all these things, but very much has done so, nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>One consequence of this is that as well as achieving what it sets out to do, the book also manages to become a handy primer on the necessity of the Trinity, and written in very accessible language. Strongly recommended both to established and beginning Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Things God Can&#8217;t Do &#8230; And How They Can Help You Sleep at Night, by Nick Tucker When I was doing youth work at church, there was one kid in the group who just loved to pick arguments with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/12-things-god-cant-do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4779","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4781,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4779\/revisions\/4781"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}