{"id":194,"date":"2019-02-01T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/?p=194"},"modified":"2019-01-21T16:01:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T21:01:26","slug":"the-perfect-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps\nthe perfect paradox is, the perfect answer lies outside the parameters of the\nquestion. When the Jews brought the adulterous woman to Jesus and asked, what\nshould we do with this woman, Moses said, \u201ca woman like this should be stoned,\nwhat do you say?\u201d They were expecting an answer somewhere between, stone her or\nlet her go; Jesus found the answer in the third way. When Satan tempted Jesus\nafter the 40 days in the desert, turn these stones into loaves, he was\nexpecting a yes or no; again, Jesus found the third way. If this perfect\nparadox seems plausible, that the perfect answer lies outside the parameters of\nthe question; then one conclusion would be; that the perfect question lies\noutside the parameters of any possible answer. It wouldn\u2019t be the perfect\nquestion if it had an answer. Conversely, if the answer did lie within the\nparameters of the question, then you would have to admit that you already knew\nthe answer before you asked, or you would never recognize the answer was the\nanswer. If this is plausible, then, there can only be one perfect answer to the\nperfect question. So, if you see the only answer to this seeming endless \u2018catch\n22\u2019 is; the perfect question is the perfect answer, then you would be\nabsolutely right. Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last. He\nis the cause and the effect. He is the question and the answer.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps the perfect paradox is, the perfect answer lies outside the parameters of the question. When the Jews brought the adulterous woman to Jesus and asked, what should we do with this woman, Moses said, \u201ca woman like this should be stoned, what do you say?\u201d They were expecting an answer somewhere between, stone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","tag-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}