{"id":16910,"date":"2021-03-24T22:18:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T02:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=16910"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:24:49","slug":"which-jesus-do-we-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2021\/03\/which-jesus-do-we-believe-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Jesus Do We Believe In?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck by the seeming incongruence of the start of today\u2019s Gospel reading from Jn 8:31\u201342.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJesus said to those Jews who believed in him,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jesus proceeds to castigate them as they argue with him.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking of the dichotomy between believing in Jesus yet not believing what Jesus was telling them. I guess this is the difference between believing in the Jesus we have created in our mind with believing in the actual Jesus.<br \/>\nThis is something we all do to some extent and something we have to be aware of and constantly purify. I know this is something I have to think about more.<\/p>\n<p>Plus here is Dr. John Bergsma talking about another aspect of today\u2019s Gospel reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bc5enWNnqzg\">Fact Checking the Pharisees on their Ancestral Claims &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck by the seeming incongruence of the start of today\u2019s Gospel reading from Jn 8:31\u201342. \u201cJesus said to those Jews who believed in him,\u201d Jesus proceeds to castigate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16912,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910\/revisions\/16912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}