{"id":6142,"date":"2024-01-22T13:47:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T19:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6142"},"modified":"2024-01-22T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T19:48:00","slug":"bible-church-yourself-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6142","title":{"rendered":"BIBLE ? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; CHURCH ? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; YOURSELF ? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; NOTHING ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What are you going to believe ?<br>Does everybody believe something ?<br>Is it even possible to believe nothing ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+ Believe the Bible ?<br>+ Believe the Church ?<br>+ Believe Yourself ?<br>+ Believe a combination of these ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All mankind is pro-choice&#8212;from day one&#8212;including Eve, before she was pregnant with Cain.<br>Obey God&#8212;Choose life<br>Disobey God&#8212;Choose Death<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is holy and never changes.<br>He made absolutes in creation.<br>He gave absolute rules to creation.<br>He gave absolute rules to Adam and Eve.<br>He gave rules for life and death.<br>He gave rules that never change.<br>He gave rules with consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God said, &#8220;Do this&#8212;and enjoy.&#8221;<br>God said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t do this&#8212;or die.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But God is also pro-choice.<br>He chose to make man, for life, for fellowship, someone to talk with and walk with.<br>He made people, to love Him, willingly, by choice . . .<br>Or not ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s one more way we can&#8217;t understand God completely.<br>Why did He do it that way ?<br>But since He did, and since He is still in charge&#8212;we should read and believe everything He &#8216;chose&#8217; to tell us about how He runs things&#8212;especially how He wants to restore our relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are you going to believe ?Does everybody believe something ?Is it even possible to believe nothing ? + Believe the Bible ?+ Believe the Church ?+ Believe Yourself ?+ Believe a combination of these ? All mankind is pro-choice&#8212;from day one&#8212;including Eve, before she was pregnant with Cain.Obey God&#8212;Choose lifeDisobey God&#8212;Choose Death God is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6144,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6142\/revisions\/6144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}