{"id":6165,"date":"2015-10-01T02:54:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligent-torvalds.74-208-171-134.plesk.page\/?p=6165"},"modified":"2023-09-12T16:35:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T21:35:38","slug":"romans-part-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/?p=6165","title":{"rendered":"Romans, Part 62"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I continue to consider Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer<\/em>,[1]<\/sup><\/a> as a description of love rather than as rules to obey, I want to look at some more truth that love<\/a> rejoices in along with some more \u1f00\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03af\u03b1<\/a> that it does not.\u00a0 What Luke called a parable<\/em> (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b2\u03bf\u03bb\u1f74\u03bd, a form of \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b2\u03bf\u03bb\u03ae<\/a>) Matthew presented as a rhetorical question in a discourse about child-rearing: If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?<\/em>[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Matthew<\/td>\n\n

Luke<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

See that you do not disdain one of these little ones.\u00a0 For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.<\/p>\n

Matthew 18:10 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

So Jesus told them this parable:<\/p>\n

Luke 15:3 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

What do you think? \u00a0If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray? \u00a0And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice (\u03c7\u03b1\u1f77\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9, a form of \u03c7\u03b1\u03af\u03c1\u03c9<\/a>) more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.<\/p>\n

Matthew 18:12, 13 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\u201cWhich one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it? \u00a0Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing (\u03c7\u03b1\u1f77\u03c1\u03c9\u03bd, another form of \u03c7\u03b1\u03af\u03c1\u03c9). \u00a0Returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, telling them, \u2018Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.\u2019<\/p>\n

Luke 15:4-6 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.<\/p>\n

Matthew 18:14 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy (\u03c7\u03b1\u03c1\u1f70<\/a>) in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.<\/p>\n

Luke 15:7 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I should back up a bit and look at more of the context of Matthew\u2019s Gospel narrative.\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 disciples had asked him, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?<\/em>[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

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He<\/a> called a child, had him stand among them, and said, \u201cI tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven! \u00a0Whoever then humbles<\/a> himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. \u00a0And whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me.\u201d[4]<\/sup><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Then He began what I am calling a discourse about child-rearing: But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.<\/em>[5]<\/sup><\/a> \u00a0The Greek word translated causes<\/em>\u2026to sin<\/em> is \u03c3\u03ba\u03b1\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u1f77\u03c3\u1fc3 (a form of \u03c3\u03ba\u03b1\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03af\u03b6\u03c9<\/a>). \u00a0The definition in the NET reads as follows:<\/p>\n

1) to put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall, metaph. to offend 1a) to entice to sin 1b) to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey 1b1) to cause to fall away 1b2) to be offended in one, i.e. to see in another what I disapprove of and what hinders me from acknowledging his authority 1b3) to cause one to judge unfavourably or unjustly of another 1c) since one who stumbles or whose foot gets entangled feels annoyed 1c1) to cause one displeasure at a thing 1c2) to make indignant 1c3) to be displeased, indignant<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It comes from \u03c3\u03ba\u03ac\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd<\/a> a snare or trap, translated stumbling blocks<\/em> in the next verse: Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks<\/em> (\u03c3\u03ba\u03b1\u03bd\u03b4\u1f71\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd, a form of \u03c3\u03ba\u03ac\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd)! \u00a0It is necessary that stumbling blocks<\/em> (\u03c3\u03ba\u1f71\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1, another form of \u03c3\u03ba\u03ac\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd) come, but woe to the person through whom they <\/em>(\u03c3\u03ba\u1f71\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd) come.\u201d<\/em>[6]<\/sup><\/a> \u00a0<\/em>The necessity (\u1f00\u03bd\u1f71\u03b3\u03ba\u03b7, a form of \u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03b3\u03ba\u03ae<\/a>) of stumbling blocks is part of the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God<\/em>,[7]<\/sup><\/a> how God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all<\/em>.[8]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 As I write this my daughter is essentially a witch, a neo-pagan.\u00a0 My part in her defection from Christ was a decision made during my divorce from her mother.<\/p>\n

<\/a>My children wanted to stay with me rather than their mother.\u00a0 I went along with it, hoping their mother would see reason.\u00a0 She called my bluff and asked for money (to which she was entitled) to leave.\u00a0 My biggest concern at that moment was the family\u2019s financial survival.\u00a0 I traveled for a living and would need to hire someone to care for them while I was away.\u00a0 I had no legal rights to my children.\u00a0 (I married into them and hadn\u2019t adopted them because their biological father was still living.) \u00a0And there were a few more things.<\/p>\n

Her care for those children had saved their mother from many (though not all) misguided mistakes.\u00a0 To take that from her seemed dangerous and cruel.\u00a0 Add to that, I was crushed in my own soul to be rejected again by yet another woman.\u00a0 I had serious doubts that I could be a single parent of two teenage children.\u00a0 Did I even want to be a single parent of two teenage children?\u00a0 I wanted to make movies.<\/p>\n

I decided that I could walk away with nothing but a paycheck, start over again and still help the family financially, and my wife could not.\u00a0 And so I rejected and abandoned my daughter.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m grateful to Stephenie Meyer<\/a>, Melissa Rosenberg<\/a>, Catherine Hardwicke<\/a> and Kristen Stewart<\/a> for giving me two hours to be a teenage girl in love.\u00a0 Randy Brown<\/a>, Robert Lorenz<\/a>, Clint Eastwood<\/a> and Amy Adams<\/a> have also helped me immensely in a more didactic way.\u00a0 But both \u201cTwilight<\/a>\u201d and \u201cTrouble with the Curve<\/a>\u201d came too late to save me from making potentially the worst decision of a lifetime of bad decisions (Matthew 18:8, 9 NET).<\/p>\n

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. \u00a0And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. \u00a0It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If what I do with my hands, if where I go with my feet, if what I see with my eyes causes me<\/em> to sin?<\/p>\n

Causes you to sin<\/em> has proven to be the worst of all possible translations of \u03c3\u03ba\u03b1\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u1f77\u03b6\u03b5\u03b9 (another form of \u03c3\u03ba\u03b1\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03af\u03b6\u03c9) for me.\u00a0 It turns my thoughts inward to my sins.\u00a0 My sins are forgiven!\u00a0 Young\u2019s Literal Translation<\/a>\u2014cause thee to stumble<\/em>\u2014allows me to see that Jesus was still talking about my real bumbling and stumbling<\/em>, causing my daughter\u2014one of those little ones who believed in Him\u2014to sin, becoming a stumbling block to her, causing her to desert one whom she ought to trust.<\/p>\n

Having watched her struggle through two drug-related psychotic breaks and a stroke, I agree with Jesus that it would have been better for me to kill myself.[9]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 It is better for her, however, that I believe that I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. \u00a0So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God<\/em>\u2026[10]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 And I continue to pray that his love, his joy, his peace, his patience, his kindness, his goodness, his faithfulness, his gentleness, and his firm control[11]<\/sup><\/a> are all she sees from me from now on, because if I cannot be forgiven\u2026<\/p>\n

And by forgiven<\/em> I mean:\u00a0 though your sins be as scarlet, they<\/strong> shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they<\/strong> shall be as wool<\/em>.[12]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 An eternity in a fiery hell seems like overkill to me for masturbation or premarital sex or even stealing a gazillion dollars.\u00a0 But if my daughter cannot be found again by the Lord Jesus, if I have condemned her to an eternity in hell, I\u2019m not entirely convinced one eternity in one fiery hell will be sufficient for me.<\/p>\n

And though I write like this I still have hope.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll always be here as your daughter,\u201d she texted me as I thought and wrote about these things.\u00a0 She has forgiven me, but not Jesus\u2014not yet.\u00a0 \u201cYour sacrifice has made my education<\/a> possible and I can never repay you but with love,\u201d she texted.\u00a0 Since faith\u00a0comes by hearing, and hearing by the word <\/em>(\u03c1\u1f75\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2, a form of \u1fe5\u1fc6\u03bc\u03b1<\/a>) of God<\/em>,[13]<\/sup><\/a> I pray that He will speak that word, \u201chear,\u201d to her heart, so she will know Jesus and his Father who has given her so much more than a few dollars.\u00a0 Now this is eternal life<\/em>, Jesus prayed to his Father, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent<\/em>.[14]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t intend this essay to be so confessional.\u00a0 I intended to write about an incident in the history of Israel, when a Levite<\/em>\u2026acquired a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah<\/em>.[15]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 Actually, I wanted to write about what happened on their journey home, after she got angry at him and went home to her father\u2019s house in Bethlehem in Judah<\/em>,[16]<\/sup><\/a> after he retrieved her from there.\u00a0 But in the KJV she didn\u2019t get angry, she played the whore against him<\/em>.\u00a0 The note<\/a> in the NET reads: \u201cOr \u2018was unfaithful to him.\u2019 Many have understood the Hebrew verb \u05d5\u05b7\u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05d6\u05b0\u05e0\u05b6\u05d4 (vattizneh) as being from \u05d6\u05b8\u05e0\u05b8\u05d4 (zanah, \u201cto be a prostitute\u201d), but it may be derived from a root meaning \u201cto be angry; to hate\u201d attested in Akkadian (see HALOT<\/em> 275 s.v. II \u05d6\u05e0\u05d4).\u201d<\/p>\n

Ken Stone<\/a> wrote in the Jewish Women\u2019s Archive<\/a> online:<\/p>\n

The Hebrew text states that the woman \u201cprostituted herself against\u201d the Levite (19:2). Thus, it has often been assumed that she was sexually unfaithful to him. Certain Greek translations, however, state that she \u201cbecame angry\u201d with him. The latter interpretation is accepted by a number of commentators and modern English translations, including the NRSV, since the woman goes to her father\u2019s house rather than the house of a male lover. It is also possible that the woman\u2019s \u201cprostitution\u201d does not refer to literal sexual infidelity but is a sort of metaphor for the fact that she leaves her husband. The act of leaving one\u2019s husband is quite unusual in the Hebrew Bible, and the harsh language used to describe it could result from the fact that it was viewed in a very negative light.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And though Mr. Stone mentioned \u201cCertain Greek translations,\u201d the Septuagint<\/a> reads simply \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u1f7b\u03b8\u03b7<\/a> \u1f00\u03c0\u1fbd \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f21 \u03c0\u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03ba\u1f74<\/a>\u00a0\u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 (literally: \u201cand went from him the concubine of his\u201d).<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t comment about a Levite with a concubine, except to say that the Hebrew word p\u0131\u0302ylegesh<\/em> (\u05e4\u05d9\u05dc\u05d2\u05e9), translated concubine<\/em>, does not occur in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers or Deuteronomy.\u00a0 It occurs in Genesis before God\u2019s law was given and again after in Judges, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Esther, Song of Solomon and Ezekiel.\u00a0 But the concubine<\/em> is a foreign custom to God\u2019s law.<\/p>\n

The Levite and his concubine spent the night in Gibeah, in the land of the Benjamites, with an old man from the Ephraimite hill country, the place to which the Levite and his concubine were returning.\u00a0 I made the following table to compare and contrast what happened next to the incident in Sodom the night before it was destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Judges, the Levite and his concubine<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Genesis, Lot and the visitors<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

They were having a good time, when suddenly some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and kept beating on the door.<\/p>\n

Judges 19:22a (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men \u2013 both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom \u2013 surrounded the house.<\/p>\n

Genesis 19:4 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The note<\/a> on good-for-nothings<\/em> in the NET reads: \u201c\u2018the men of the city, men, the sons of wickedness.\u2019 The phrases are in apposition; the last phrase specifies what type of men they were. It is not certain if all the men of the city are in view, or just a group of troublemakers. In 20:5 the town leaders are implicated in the crime, suggesting that all the men of the city were involved. If so, the implication is that the entire male population of the town were good-for-nothings.\u201d\u00a0 The text is clearer regarding Sodom: Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord <\/em>(yeh\u00f4v\u00e2h<\/a><\/em>).[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Judges, the Levite and his concubine<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Genesis, Lot and the visitors<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

They said to the old man who owned the house, \u201cSend out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judges 19:22b (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

They shouted to Lot, \u201cWhere are the men who came to you tonight?\u00a0 Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!\u201d<\/p>\n

Genesis 19:5 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, \u201cNo, my brothers!\u00a0 Don\u2019t do this wicked thing!\u00a0 After all, this man is a guest in my house.\u00a0 Don\u2019t do such a disgraceful thing!<\/p>\n

Judges 19:23 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.\u00a0 He said, \u201cNo, my brothers!\u00a0 Don\u2019t act so wickedly!<\/p>\n

Genesis 19:6, 7 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Here are my virgin daughter and my guest\u2019s concubine.\u00a0 I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like.\u00a0 But don\u2019t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!\u201d<\/p>\n

Judges 19:24 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man.\u00a0 Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please.\u00a0 Only don\u2019t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.\u201d<\/p>\n

Genesis 19:8 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Chivalry<\/a> as a moral code was invented much later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Judges, the Levite and his concubine<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Genesis, Lot and the visitors<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

The men refused to listen to him\u2026<\/p>\n

Judges 19:25a (NET)<\/p>\n

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\u201cOut of our way!\u201d they cried, and \u201cThis man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge (Septuagint<\/a>: \u03ba\u03c1\u1f77\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd<\/a> \u03ba\u03c1\u1f77\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd<\/a>) us!\u00a0 We\u2019ll do more harm to you than to them!\u201d\u00a0 They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.<\/p>\n

Genesis 19:9 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u2026so the Levite grabbed his concubine and made her go outside.<\/p>\n

Judges 19:25b (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.\u00a0 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness.<\/p>\n

Genesis 19:10, 11a (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

They raped her and abused her all night long until morning.\u00a0 They let her go at dawn.<\/p>\n

Judges 19:25c (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.<\/p>\n

Genesis 19:11b (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Benjamites who did this were not \u201cgodless Sodomites<\/a>,\u201d extremely wicked rebels against the Lord <\/em>(yeh\u00f4v\u00e2h<\/em>, \u05dc\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4), but sons of Israel living in the promised land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Judges, the Levite and his concubine<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Genesis, Lot and the visitors<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master was staying until it became light. \u00a0When her master got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went outside to start on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, sprawled out on the doorstep of the house with her hands on the threshold.<\/p>\n

Judges 19:26, 27 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Then the two visitors said to Lot, \u201cWho else do you have here? \u00a0Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? \u00a0Get them out of this place because we are about to destroy it. \u00a0The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord (yeh\u00f4v\u00e2h<\/em>, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4) that he (yeh\u00f4v\u00e2h<\/em>, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d4) has sent us to destroy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Genesis 19:12, 13 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The woman was dead.\u00a0 Dear God, I hope she was dead (Judges 19:29, 30 NET):<\/p>\n

When he got home, [the Levite]<\/em> took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. \u00a0Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel. \u00a0Everyone who saw the sight said, \u201cNothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since the Israelites left the land of Egypt! \u00a0Take careful note of it! \u00a0Discuss it and speak!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Romans, Part 63<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Back to Romans, Part 64<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>[1]<\/sup> Romans 12:12 (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[2]<\/sup> Matthew 18:12 (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[3]<\/sup> Matthew 18:1b (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[4]<\/sup> Matthew 18:2-5 (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[5]<\/sup> Matthew 18:6 (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[6]<\/sup> Matthew 18:7 (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[7]<\/sup> Romans 11:33a (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[8]<\/sup> Romans 11:32 (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[9]<\/sup> Matthew 18:6b (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>[10]<\/sup> Galatians 2:20a (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[11]<\/sup> Galatians 5:22, 23 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>[12]<\/sup> Isaiah 1:18b (NKJV) Table<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>[13]<\/sup> Romans 10:17 (NKJV)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[14]<\/sup> John 17:3 (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[15]<\/sup> Judges 19:1b (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[16]<\/sup> Judges 19:2a (NET)<\/p>\n

<\/a>[17]<\/sup> Genesis 13:13 (NET)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I continue to consider Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer,[1] as a description of love rather than as rules to obey, I want to look at some more truth that love rejoices in along with some … Continue reading →<\/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":[1736,3116,3118,20,2719],"tags":[2361,2965,2972,2772,2974,2964,2966,2968,2770,2971,565,222,2961,2962,2963,2967,2969,2970,2973,2975,2955,2957,2814,1327,1562,2512,2956,2590,2958,2959,2960,2430,3506,3499,1057,1694,1881,2914],"class_list":["post-6165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-12","category-love","category-rejoice-in-hope","category-romans","category-section-three","tag-galatians-220","tag-genesis-1313","tag-genesis-1910-11","tag-genesis-1911","tag-genesis-1912-13","tag-genesis-194","tag-genesis-195","tag-genesis-196-7","tag-genesis-198","tag-genesis-199","tag-isaiah-118","tag-john-173","tag-judges-191","tag-judges-192","tag-judges-1922","tag-judges-1923","tag-judges-1924","tag-judges-1925","tag-judges-1926-27","tag-judges-1929-30","tag-luke-153","tag-luke-154-6","tag-luke-157","tag-matthew-181","tag-matthew-1810","tag-matthew-1812","tag-matthew-1812-13","tag-matthew-1814","tag-matthew-182-5","tag-matthew-186","tag-matthew-187","tag-matthew-188-9","tag-movies-trouble-with-the-curve","tag-movies-twilight","tag-romans-1017","tag-romans-1132","tag-romans-1133","tag-romans-1212"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21820,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions\/21820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}