{"id":5943,"date":"2005-06-22T09:43:55","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T14:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/06\/22\/personal-faith\/"},"modified":"2005-06-22T09:43:55","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T14:43:55","slug":"personal-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/06\/personal-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"blog\">Mark Shea has a great column called<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicexchange.com\/vm\/index.asp?vm_id=2&#038;art_id=27700&#038;sec_id=#section53094\"> &#8216;On &quot;Personal&quot; Faith&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/a>with some excellent insights such as &quot;Personal things are not private; personal things are common.<\/span>&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">When I ask what &quot;forcing our beliefs on others&quot; actually means, the reply generally boils down to &quot;Talking about our beliefs in any way.&quot; The idea at work behind this notion is that personal means subjective, private, esoteric and inward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">That is exactly how the idea of personal faith has come to be understood. For a Christian this idea is antithetical to the Great Commission&quot;Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.&quot; This is what happens when personal faith has been delinked from absolute truth and a subjective faith is not worth the effort of spreading. A personal faith that does not flow out into the common life is no faith at all because you have lost the faith that it is true and worth having. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Shea has a great column called &#8216;On &quot;Personal&quot; Faith&#8217; with some excellent insights such as &quot;Personal things are not private; personal things are common.&quot; When I ask what &quot;forcing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}