{"id":232,"date":"2006-09-03T09:22:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=232"},"modified":"2007-10-16T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T18:23:15","slug":"rating-religious-adherents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/rating-religious-adherents\/","title":{"rendered":"Rating Religious Adherents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at WizBangBlog, Jay Tea has this excellent post: <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/\">Explosively Unique&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>So as a matter of practicality, I don&#8217;t judge the religions on their beliefs, but by the behavior of their adherents<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>While I <i>do<\/i> measure doctrines, I also believe the practical outworking of said doctrines is important. Extremely important, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible tells us to try the spirits. It also tells us that by their works shall we identify the false and the true.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I wonder how JT would evaluate me. And I wonder what conclusions he would come to about my Christianity and my Anabaptism.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, I wonder what conclusions he would draw from my life about the God I profess to love and follow and serve.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a piece from Hebrews 11:16 &#8212; <font color=red>&#8220;Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God.&#8221;<\/font> Oh wow!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what conclusions he would draw from my life about the God I profess to love and follow and serve.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-3K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}