{"id":284,"date":"2006-12-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=284"},"modified":"2007-06-29T08:19:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T15:19:24","slug":"christianity-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/christianity-102\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity 102"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God wants His people to <i>live<\/i> by the Bible, not <i>swear<\/i> by it.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God&#8217;s throne: But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil&#8221;<\/i> (Matthew 5:34,37).<\/p>\n<p>So why should Christians be in an uproar about this next matter?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061218\/NEWS06\/612180319\">Minnesota lawmaker takes hits over Quran<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Conservative bloggers were outraged when former Detroiter Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, announced he would use the Quran for his swearing-in ceremony photo, instead of the Bible.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It&#8217;s OK.<\/p>\n<p>(And when a Christian in Turkey is forced to swear by the Koran, well . . . .)<\/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>God wants His people to live by the Bible, not swear by it. &#8220;But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God&#8217;s throne: But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil&#8221; (Matthew 5:34,37). So why should Christians be &#8230; <a title=\"Christianity 102\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/christianity-102\/\" aria-label=\"More on Christianity 102\">Read more<\/a><!-- 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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-4A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}