{"id":1234,"date":"2011-07-13T13:44:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T20:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:36:10","slug":"knowledge-of-the-holy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2011\/07\/13\/knowledge-of-the-holy\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge of the Holy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1236\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/KNOWLEDGE_HOLY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/KNOWLEDGE_HOLY.jpg 545w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/KNOWLEDGE_HOLY-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/KNOWLEDGE_HOLY-500x275.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A.W. Tozer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNeither the writer nor the reader of these words  is qualified to appreciate the holiness of God. Quite literally a new  channel must be cut through the desert of our minds to allow the sweet  waters of truth that will heal our great sickness to flow in. We cannot  grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or  something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree  we are capable of.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s holiness is not simply the best we know  infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands  apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable\u2026 Holy  is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He is  that standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">\u2013A.W. Tozer, <em>The Knowledge of the Holy<\/em>. (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1961), pp. 104-5.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.W. Tozer: \u201cNeither the writer nor the reader of these words is qualified to appreciate the holiness of God. Quite literally a new channel must be cut through the desert of our minds to allow the sweet waters of truth that will heal our great sickness to flow in. We cannot grasp the true meaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9443,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/9443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}