{"id":358,"date":"2006-09-28T21:07:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T21:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=358"},"modified":"2006-09-28T21:07:05","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T21:07:05","slug":"self-test:-are-the-things-we-do,-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Self Test: Are the Things we Do, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The truth shall set you free. For we were once enslaved to sin.<\/p>\n<p>So, when we're christians, if one has doubt of what he\/she's doing is right before God even to the slightest degree, he\/she could ask him\/herself that if this practice is taken out of his\/her life:<\/p>\n<p>FIRSTLY, can he\/she do it? Not just verbally, but in action.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, is removing such habit diminishing glorifying God? (Or to put it plainly, is removing such habit a bad thing before God)<\/p>\n<p>If the answer to the first condition is yes, and no to the second, then why not abolish such habit.<\/p>\n<p>If the answer to the first condition is no, and no to the second, then one is still enslaved by sin. He\/She merely understood what it means to repent, to be saved by Christ, but not truly experiencing it by faith.<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth shall set you free. For we were once enslaved to sin. So, when we're christians, if one has doubt of what he\/she's doing is right before God even to the slightest degree, he\/she could ask him\/herself that if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=358\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}