{"id":184,"date":"2003-06-19T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2003-06-20T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2003\/06\/19\/lunch-with-andy-carver\/"},"modified":"2003-06-19T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2003-06-20T00:00:41","slug":"lunch-with-andy-carver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/06\/19\/lunch-with-andy-carver","title":{"rendered":"Lunch With Andy Carver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had an interesting lunch with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andycarver.com\/\">Andy Carver<\/a>, all-around cool guy and former congressional candidate (Libertarian). He\u2019s working on his Ph.D. in Management, Science, and Engineering. He also drives a really nice motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we had lunch to talk about God. Andy is somewhere in the agnostic realm (he thinks there\u2019s probably something out there, but despairs of knowing exactly what it is\u2013he\u2019s just doesn\u2019t see how you can choose between the major world religions).<\/p>\n<p>We talked for about 2 or 3 hours. We\u2019ll have to get together again sometime soon, we both seemed to really enjoy ourselves!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thumbnail version of my half of our discussion:<\/p>\n<p>Why choose Christianity?<\/p>\n<p>1) God exists<br>\n2) God is&nbsp;good<br>\n3) God has revealed Himself in&nbsp;Jesus<br>\n4) The Bible is God\u2019s trustworthy message<\/p>\n<p>We spent a lot of time talking about the different reasons I find each tenet plausible (and have in fact chosen to base my life upon&nbsp;them).<\/p>\n<p>At the end, Andy allowed me to pray a simple prayer for him: <i>God, I know you love Andy. Please reveal yourself to him in a way that makes sense to him and is persuasive to him. Bless him in his studies, in his relationship with Glo, and in everything else he puts his hand to. In Jesus name, Amen.<\/i> He seemed to genuinely appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of our conversation I asked his permission to make a little posting about our meeting. He granted it, and you just finished reading the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had an interesting lunch with Andy Carver, all-around cool guy and former congressional candidate (Libertarian). He\u2019s working on his Ph.D. in Management, Science, and Engineering. He also drives a really nice motorcycle. Anyway, we had lunch to talk about God. Andy is somewhere in the agnostic realm (he thinks there\u2019s probably something out \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/06\/19\/lunch-with-andy-carver\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cLunch With Andy Carver\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-2Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}