{"id":20615,"date":"2026-04-16T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20615"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:40:29","slug":"answering-the-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20615","title":{"rendered":"Answering the Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Took me a while, but this is where I note down the come backs I would have\/should have\/have given when facing real life challenges, particularly in churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>I was asked one time at Jireh Church (Marlboro township) by some member: You must have a lot of time from your job, that you can talk about\/study theology?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answer <\/strong>(should have been): <strong>Because America is a country full of Christian cults, we really should make time for theology!<\/strong> Making sure that we don't go to fake churches or for fake beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From a Crossroads Men's meeting (on challenging questions, i.e. can spy lie? etc.). When I took one of the given question list by the host and asked my group: So what do you think of this Israel challenges, do we support Israel, what is Israel to Christians? And I got the response from a black guy: <strong>It is a distraction from Christian love.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answer <\/strong>(should have been): Ok, let me ask another question then, should Christian have debates? How would you sort out differences? <strong>Do we seek the truth or bury it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To be continued with more examples...<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took me a while, but this is where I note down the come backs I would have\/should have\/have given when facing real life challenges, particularly in churches. I was asked one time at Jireh Church (Marlboro township) by some member: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20615\">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":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dialogues","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615","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=20615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20622,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615\/revisions\/20622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}