{"id":1344,"date":"2009-06-23T16:23:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2009-06-23T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T16:23:37","slug":"the-wisdom-of-the-good-samaritan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of the Good Samaritan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<em><strong>Luk 10:35&nbsp; And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. <\/strong><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is shown here not only is the Samaritan merciful, he is also just. Today, so many &quot;nice&quot; Christians presume that caring is good enough. Love without wisdom, without conscience, without justice is no love at all. It is foolishness, as the etymology for the word &quot;nice&quot; is in Latin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe must always be conscious of our surrounding. A good deed cannot blind the sin of carelessness.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd it is even worst if one says: ...Take care of him, and whatsoever he needs, have a heart and give to him yourself, God bless you.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Samaritan illustrated here is obviously a trustworthy fellow as well, that he will come again and be responsible for any deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luk 10:35&nbsp; And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}