{"id":21837,"date":"2026-09-17T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21837"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:11:51","slug":"theology-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21837","title":{"rendered":"Theology of the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\"An unexamined life is not worth living\" ~ Socrates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\"None get to God but through trouble\" ~ <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catherine_of_Aragon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Catherine of Aragon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This topic has been brought to my attention when I notice some young pastors, graduated from Reformed Seminaries, deny the true essence of this theology. They argue that there's no need to suffer while acknowledging human responsibility. Such that <strong>God can shut down a faithful church for no reason at all<\/strong>. First time I heard this from very clearly is Pastor Chris of GCC, Bridgewater. And this entry is my rebuttal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of all, their view is a major fail for any alumni of theological seminaries. For the two quotes I listed above, prove that this flaw is even recognized in the general revelation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"An unexamined life is not worth living\" ~ Socrates \"None get to God but through trouble\" ~ Catherine of Aragon This topic has been brought to my attention when I notice some young pastors, graduated from Reformed Seminaries, deny the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21837\">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-21837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21837","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=21837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21841,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21837\/revisions\/21841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}