{"id":349,"date":"2006-09-21T00:55:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T00:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=349"},"modified":"2006-09-21T00:55:52","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T00:55:52","slug":"no-genius-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"No Genius in Heaven?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a fellowship at Faith Bible Church in Flushing, I once heard a pastor's wife said: Heaven needs no geniuses.<\/p>\n<p>Really? I wonder from which Bible passage she's gotten this revelation.<\/p>\n<p>Had it been &quot;Heaven needs no proud people&quot;, it may have been more acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven needs no geniuses? Well then, her heaven is a heaven without God I supposed.<\/p>\n<p>God created geniuses. Being a genius is not a sin. It's an opportunity to glorify God.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there are also many christians who think they are geniuses for being &quot;creative&quot; (especially in California), while actually they got the dummest idea.<\/p>\n<p>My conclusion would be, if you had gotten something without any pride not even subconscious one whatsoever but only glorification to God, then it's a miracle. Miracles happen everytime. One needs not to wait for certain sign to call it a miracle. If you had gotten something with pride while still able &quot;pretend&quot; to glorify God, be aware, be very very careful. Something is not quite right there.<\/p>\n<p>As I have said before, some christians think they know love better than God, than Christ, and they would never admit that their love is better than God's.<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a fellowship at Faith Bible Church in Flushing, I once heard a pastor's wife said: Heaven needs no geniuses. Really? I wonder from which Bible passage she's gotten this revelation. Had it been &quot;Heaven needs no proud people&quot;, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=349\">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-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}