{"id":186,"date":"2006-04-17T23:45:58","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T23:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=186"},"modified":"2006-04-17T23:45:58","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T23:45:58","slug":"theology-is-the-highest-school-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Theology is the highest school of thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is unfortunate that people nowadays take schools\/colleges\/universities for granted so much that they have thought the reason to go to school is to get a job.<\/p>\n<p>Nay, but to pursue and improve one's knowledge and oneself.<\/p>\n<p>Pragmatic? Anything that God has promised is pratical. Hence, predestination is practical (yet many still don't understand this very statement), Christ's second coming is practical, improving one's knowledge is practical.<\/p>\n<p>Those who think only money and job are practical are just too blinded by the materialism of this world.<\/p>\n<p>SOME knew about the uselessness of materialism yet they do not admit they are devoted to such as long as they have or pretending to have something non-materialistic going on in their lives. And if you tell them this, they will assume you are asking them to throw away all their money.<\/p>\n<p>Many knew they could either serve God or Mammon and they should not serve Mammon. But they have reasoned themselves that they could serve both God and Mammon.<\/p>\n<p>It is sad that God has given them brain, but they just want 'yes' or 'no' answer. They don't want to use their head.<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is unfortunate that people nowadays take schools\/colleges\/universities for granted so much that they have thought the reason to go to school is to get a job. Nay, but to pursue and improve one's knowledge and oneself. Pragmatic? Anything that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=186\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}