{"id":1874,"date":"2010-12-06T00:56:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T00:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2010-12-06T00:56:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T00:56:43","slug":"white-lies,-better-put-by-john-macarthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"White Lies, better put by John MacArthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nRemembering a sermon by Pastor MacArthur, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gty.org\/Resources\/Sermons\/90-388_A-Conquering-Courageous-Faith-Part-1\" target=\"_blank\">&quot;A Conquering, Courageous Faith, Part 1&quot; Code 90-388<\/a>, where he spoke of Rahab lying to savee the spies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;<em>Was that the truth? No, it was a lie. Was it <strong>necessary<\/strong>? No, it&rsquo;s never necessary. Would God have protected the spies if she had told the truth? Absolutely. We would have just had a different story of how God protected the spies. This doesn&rsquo;t justify the lie, but we can <u>commend her for her courage<\/u> in the case of hiding them.<\/em>&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering a sermon by Pastor MacArthur, &quot;A Conquering, Courageous Faith, Part 1&quot; Code 90-388, where he spoke of Rahab lying to savee the spies. &quot;Was that the truth? No, it was a lie. Was it necessary? No, it&rsquo;s never necessary. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1874\">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":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","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=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}