{"id":6237,"date":"2015-04-17T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T23:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6237"},"modified":"2015-04-17T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T02:56:00","slug":"john-839-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6237","title":{"rendered":"John 8:39-59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>v.39: Identity claim. The Jews claim their identity by who their <strong>father<\/strong> (Abraham) was. Jesus redefined their identity by who they are <strong>children<\/strong> of. Which is identified by what they do, not by their title.<\/p>\n<p>During the discussion, there's an allusion to how Christians deal with a still sinful lifestyle. The general response even from the pastor were that all credits are from God's grace, not by work at all. So, when we sins, it just the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>I would emphasize that though by grace alone all merits come, but there is a fruit to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>v.39: Identity claim. The Jews claim their identity by who their father (Abraham) was. Jesus redefined their identity by who they are children of. Which is identified by what they do, not by their title. During the discussion, there's an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6237\">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-6237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237","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=6237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6241,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6237\/revisions\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}