{"id":6514,"date":"2015-09-26T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2015-09-26T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T13:22:26","slug":"its-the-work-of-the-holy-spirit-not-rational-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6514","title":{"rendered":"It's the work of the Holy Spirit (not rational thinking)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I've been hearing a lot of this from fellow Christians.<\/p>\n<p>My prompt response is: \"Yes, it is the work of the Holy Spirit, not by reasoning, NOR BY LOVE!\"<\/p>\n<p>The last phrase generally comes unexpected to them. They sometimes get tongue tied hearing it.<\/p>\n<p>If they take no reaction to my response, then it is strange, it is likely they did not hear my last phrase. If they had already agreed with it, I wonder how they imagine the Holy Spirit moves one to conversion. By miracles? They must be dreaming then.<\/p>\n<p>If they take my response as hostile\/incorrect, is not theirs hostile\/incorrect at first?<\/p>\n<p>But they are Christians! Why would I treat them so? Are they not doing the same thing in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>Problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I've been hearing a lot of this from fellow Christians. My prompt response is: \"Yes, it is the work of the Holy Spirit, not by reasoning, NOR BY LOVE!\" The last phrase generally comes unexpected to them. They sometimes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=6514\">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-6514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514","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=6514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6515,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions\/6515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}