{"id":28,"date":"2012-08-27T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/simple-truth-is-sometimes-best\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T03:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T03:56:55","slug":"simple-truth-is-sometimes-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/simple-truth-is-sometimes-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Truth is sometimes best"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"scripture\"><p>You shall have no other gods before me.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Exodus+20%3A3&amp;version=NIV\">Exodus 20:13<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"blog\">A friend of mine shared a link to another <a href=\"http:\/\/reknew.org\/2012\/08\/the-deadly-nature-of-religious-idolatry\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>. It has been haunting me, because as a good Pharisee, I place a high value on being &#8220;right&#8221; Also, I&#8217;ve been doing a bit of thinking on idolatry, and have been challenged by the question &#8220;Life has meaning\/I only have worth if&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">How do you fill in the blank?<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Today, during worship I was reminded and confessed that my identity, my very reason for living is wrapped up in the fact that I am a sinner, saved by grace. My life has meaning because I have been forgiven of my sins by the grace of God and the blood of Jesus. My highest purpose is in bringing glory to the father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">I&#8217;m good with that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">What defines your life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You shall have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:13 A friend of mine shared a link to another blog. It has been haunting me, because as a good Pharisee, I place a high value on being &#8220;right&#8221; Also, I&#8217;ve been doing a bit of thinking on idolatry, and have been challenged by the question &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/simple-truth-is-sometimes-best\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Simple Truth is sometimes best&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.melton.space\/pharisee\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}